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Lucinda Creighton: Better and more policing is the key to ending Dublin’s crime crisis

We need to fund the Garda properly, adopt a zero-tolerance approach to the smallest of offences, and bring back community liaison officers, for a start

‘The increase in crime is not just anecdotal . . . If concern for citizens’ safety does not jolt the government into action, perhaps the embarrassing security warning issued last week by the US embassy in Ireland to its citizens might do the trick’

The deterioration in safety levels in Dublin comes as no surprise. The city has been on a very noticeable downward spiral for quite some time, but the flagrant nature of criminal activity in the city centre is nonetheless stark.

The swarms of young men and teenagers roaming the streets, the open drug dealing and the visible groups of addicts shooting up in broad daylight must be jaw-dropping to visitors who have not become immune to ...