how corrupt is the irish police force

The Irish police force, styling itself An Garda Siochana or Guardians Of The Peace, has just published new statistics which it is claiming show a decrease in the number of road deaths by 40 percent over five years.
The Irish Times has as per usual presented the assertions contained in those generalised statistics uncritically.
It is disquieting that the Irish Times publication of such an assertion by Ireland's corrupt police force did not contain any exact road death figures for the year 2005 nor the present year.
The statistical assertion of a 40 percent decline in road deaths was printed in the Irish Times without question, without analysis and without any insightful assessment of the possibility that the corrupt Irish police force would lie about such things.
It is dissatisfying that the Irish police force is allowed to assemble such data itself.
The road death figures should be independently compiled and published.
This is because where the Irish police force has been trusted to compile statistics in the past, their statistics have been shown to be arrantly false.
In 1997 with crime spiralling out of control, the Irish police force published figures claiming that crime had fallen in every single precinct in Ireland except one.
Presumably the one precinct which admitted crime rates had risen was the last remaining precinct in Ireland where police officers occasionally tell the truth.
The law and order figures published by the Irish police force for 2009 also claim a marked decline in the crime rate.
These are also arrantly false.
More tellingly, the figures for Deaths In Garda Custody which the Irish police force compile themselves are so routinely and so blatently falsified that on one recent occasion the United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights was called in to investigate.
The United Nations Rapporteur On Human Rights exposed the omission of no less than two dead human beings in one year from the Deaths In Garda Custody figures.
The excuse offered by the Irish police force for the concealment of these two murders, was that although the two men may have had fatal injuries inflicted on them in Garda Custody by members of the Irish police force, their actual deaths took place off the premises as they were in the process of being removed from Garda Stations when they croaked.
One expects this sort of stuff in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, or the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the Arab dictatorships, or communist North Korea, or communist Burmah, or communist Anywhere.
But here?
In Ireland?
We've fallen a long way.
Back to the newly falsified road death statistics.
These are currently being touted in a pathetic attempt to allay public concern about the out of control thugs that pass here for police officers.
Here is the news.
Road deaths in 2005 spiked.
They were higher than previous years and subsequent years.
It was not a typical year.
It is not a proper bench mark for comparison.
In any case the supposed fall in road deaths in 2010 and 2009, is more logically attributable to the fact that several hundred thousand foreign nationals left Ireland in those years.
The loss of several hundred thousand of our population in two years, means we had millions fewer road journeys in those two years.
That's why the road death statistics have fallen.
Not because of Garda Sean Hardman suffocating people in the cells, or Sergeant James Dominic O'Mara's casual thuggery towards motorists going about their lawful business.
The real figures fell because there were millions less road journeys.
The Irish police are terrorising the nation for no nett gain.
And one other thing.
Even if the egregiously corrupt nascently fascist Irish police force had brought down the road death figures, I mean the real figures, not just the figures they make up out of their heads...
Even if they had genuinely brought down the death rate...
I'd ask you to consider the following.
Mussolini made the trains run on time and halted all mafia activity for ten years in Italy.
Most of us agree it wasn't worth it.