Recent events in Dublin have sparked a debate about the city's safety, with calls for increased Garda presence initially dominating the conversation. However, a growing sense of realism is emerging, challenging the notion that Dublin is a dangerous city and questioning the efficacy of simply flooding the city center with police. This article examines the shift in narrative, highlighting the need to address the perception of Dublin's safety without resorting to exaggerated claims or knee-jerk reactions.
Dublin's South Anne Street. The fatal stabbing of Quham Babatunde there has not generated anything like the sort of frenzy usually associated with incidents of violent crime in the city. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos’s city-centre businesses would appear to have come to the belated realisation that banging on about people not feeling safe in Dublin is not only wrong but also counterproductive.
“I think we have to be realistic; we’re not going to have gardaí on every street corner 24 hours a day,” he told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.He also seemed to downplay the value of the 1,000 extra gardaí he has been seeking. They would be very welcome, he said, because “there is a civic reassurance when people see gardaí on the street”.
The problem that now faces those representing city-centre business is that, having promulgated the damaging narrative that people don’t feel safe in Dublin, how to do they walk it back in the absence of their proposed solution of flooding the city with gardaí? It almost inevitably leads to a “frenzy among commentators, politicians and social media users, often laced with classist and racist undertones and accompanied by calls for harsher policing, ‘zero-tolerance crackdowns’ and, ultimately, the greater use of imprisonment.”
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