how corrupt is the irish police force

The Irish police force (styling itself An Garda Siochana) has released statistics claiming a fall in road deaths of thirty people over the past year.

The supposed reduction in road deaths comes amid an unprecedented display of aggressivity from police officers towards members of the public driving about their lawful business.

I would make the following points.

The police have for several years now behaved in a cavalierly thuggish attitude towards motorists.

It is good for the ordinary public to experience this.

In the past when left wingers told us the police were corrupt, most of us simply didn't believe them.

Now we have seen it for ourselves and we know it's true.

Road death rate falling?

After a few years of individual and institutional thuggery, the police are producing figures to show that their thuggery gets results.

Let me be clear.

I don't believe these figures.

The figures the Irish police produce for road deaths are figures they themselves have compiled.

In the past there have been problems with Garda statistics as compiled by themselves.

For instance, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights investigated An Garda Siochana for falsifying the DEATHS IN GARDA CUSTODY figures which the police are required to publish annually.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur was  called in after citizens who had been killed in Garda custody were not mentioned in the DEATHS IN GARDA CUSTODY figures.

The excuse the police furnished for their omission of two dead people who had met their deaths in police custody from their DEATHS IN GARDA CUSTODY statistics in a given year was that although the two people may have been assaulted in police custody, they only finally expired after being removed to a hospital.

Not our fault Guvnor.

Died in an ospital, innit!

Thugs.

Crass murdering thugs.

And the ones who cover up for them are worse.

If the police have been falsifying the DEATHS IN GARDA CUSTODY statistics, why should we assume they're not capable of falsifying the road death figures?

I am deeply dissatisfied that we rely on the police for the maintenance and tabulation of any figures, let alone road death statistics at a time when there is serious public concern about the way traffic police are behaving towards citizens at the side of the road.

Near where I live, two years ago at Christmas, a motorist was stopped by police who claimed the motorist had performed an erratic manoeuvre.

There was a child in the car with the motorist.

The erratic manoeuvre was never specified.

The motorist died at the scene.

The child watched the parent die.

Ah.

Hero cops of the Republic of Ireland.

We must presume the motorist had a heart attack.

This detail was never clarified.

If the police put that motorist in fear as they do regularly with thousands of other motorists, if they induced a heart attack in that citizen, I would consider it murder.

The police themselves released a highly prejudicial, (and certainly illegal) statement to the media, to wit that they were checking the dead person's blood for illicit substances.

This was an attempt to imply guilt on the dead citizen where there was no a priori evidence of guilt at all.

There was no further media scrutiny of the death.

The results of the police enquiry, such as it was, were not reported.

The death was not included in the annual DEATHS IN GARDA CUSTODY statistics.

Of course it wasn't.

The person died at the side of the road.

It doesn't count unless he dies in a Garda station, eh lads.

Thugs.

Murdering thugs.

Here is the news.

Copies to all Irish police officers.

No country on earth empowers its police to kill citizens at the side of the road for purported traffic infringements.

Not even Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

Not even the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Not even the effin Taliban.

The Irish police force has attained a standard of thuggery that would shame the Islamists.

It's bloody appalling.

Very bloody.

The Irish police force has replaced the internationally accepted standard of policing To Protect And Serve with a twisted malign motto of their own To Harass And Intimidate.

And now they're trumpeting a fall in the number of people dying in traffic accidents.

Ignore the fact that while the police have been terrorising law abiding motorists at the side of the road, real crime has been exploding off the scale all over the country.

Murders, stabbings, drug dealing, rape, child abuse.

Off the scale.

But Garda Hardman claims his thuggery towards the law abiding public has brought down the road death figures.

Yeah right.

An important, and thus far unreported factor, in the fall in road deaths, has been a fall in the general population.

According to official figures, half the foreign nationals resident in Ireland left the country in the last two years.

Half of them.

(I doubt these figures are correct because they were released in order to assuage public concerns about immigration. Nonetheless they are the official figures.)

Half the foreign nationals are supposed to have left.

That would mean several hundred thousand less people on the roads.

It would mean in fact that the much trumpeted fall in the road deaths figures actually amounted to an increase when the fatalities are taken as a percentage of the number of people using the roads.

And the statistical breakdown is so complicated, that the Guards can be virtually certain the general public will never figure it out.

Vile.

Vile corrupt bastards.

That is what they are.

That is what they will continue to be until we put a stop to them.

So there was no fall in the road death figures.

The claimed fall in road deaths is a nonsense.

A statistical hiccup downwards that when translated into reality actually represents an increase.

There you go.

Diabolical, isn't it.

Our police, the present generation of officers in An Garda Siochana, have repudiated a century of integrity, nobility and public trust towards the law enforcement officers who came before them.

The present generation of Irish police officers have become fascist scum.

I don't say it lightly.

I say it because it's true.

But let's assume for a moment that I'm wrong in all this.

I've had a few negative experiences with Irish police officers at the side of the road in the run up to Christmas.

Perhaps I'm not an objective judge.

Let's assume for a moment that the Irish police force, through their high aggression tactics, genuinely did bring down the road death figures over the past year.

You know folks, Mussolini made the trains run on time and put a stop to all Mafia activity in Italy for a period of twenty years.

No one else ever managed the same feat.

Most of us agree it wasn't worth it.