La maggior parte dei crimini lo scorso anno sono stati commessi da recidivi, mostrano le nuove statistiche

So… crime is being carried out by criminals.

Let me get a pen in case I forget.

Repeat offenders are driving crime now 6 in 10 detected crimes last year were by people already on the books, and burglaries/thefts are overwhelmingly done by those with prior records. We need not just policing but real rehabilitation, otherwise it’s just a revolving door.

Yay more ad revenue for the Journal. Surely this counts as low effort content?

Crimes were committed in-between Ireland for the Irish protests.

Half of those repeat offenders are the very same people who show up at every anti-migrant protest, shouting she was only ten as if weaponising a tragedy somehow excuses their behaviour. These are the same individuals who insist their estates are no longer safe for their little angels, painting themselves as victims of a society that’s somehow abandoned them, yet they conveniently ignore the fact that the problems in their own communities are often caused by the same familiar faces they protect, enable, or turn a blind eye to.

They’re the ones who criticise the government at every opportunity, complaining about how nothing ever changes, how the country is falling apart, how politicians are useless yet when it actually comes to the one thing that gives them any real influence, the one moment where their voice genuinely counts, they refuse to get out of bed and vote. They’ll spend hours ranting on Facebook, days marching up and down streets with placards, and nights shouting at the news on the telly, but ask them to show up at a polling station and suddenly it’s too much effort.

Well obviously. The majority of crimes are carried out by a tiny % of the population who commit hundreds, even thousands of offences over a lifetime of low level criminality. It’s their job.

There’s a story from today [here](https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/crime-and-courts/1951894/career-burglar-whose-victim-lives-in-constant-fear-has-sentence-from-limerick-court-reduced.html) where a 39 year old man with 204 previous convictions, 53 for burglary, had his sentence for burglary reduced by 2 years on appeal.

He committed burglary while on bail. The judge reduced the sentence saying “We think that there must be some reasonable prospect at this stage of breaking the cycle of criminality to the ultimate benefit not only of the accused but of society”.

I’m not sure how reasonable that prospect of breaking the cycle is for someone with 204 previous convictions.

Surely all those offenders on suspended sentences aren’t out committing more crimes?

Remember when the guards chased those lads the wrong way up the motorway where they went head on with a truck.

Burglaries in south dublin and wicklow went down by something like 70%. Just think of all tbe saved tax money investigating that many burglaries regularly. 

Get criminals off the street. Consequence (and hopefully learning) for criminal, effort rewarded for guards and a safer place for everyone including those who would be coopted into criminal activity through fear.

Edit: just to be clear im advocating prisons not getting all criminals to go head on with a truck..