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MURDERS WERE UP 31% in Ireland last year compared to the year previous.
The crime figures from the Central Statistics Office also showed sexual offences increased by 8% and sexual assaults on children were up over 20%.
The number of sexual offences was higher in Dublin compared to the rest of the country.
There was also a sharp rise in neglect and cruelty with over 260 cases of child cruelty or neglect last year, an increase of over 50%.
Murders
There were 38 murders in 2016, compared to 29 in 2015.
The ongoing feud between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs accounted for the deaths of ten people last year.
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There was a drop in kidnappings, hijackings and robberies but a 6% increase in drugs crime.
In a note attached with the statistics, the CSO referenced the investigation into the number of garda breath tests carried out between 2012 and 2016. It said:
The CSO requested data on the 148,000 offences to establish whether any of these offences had been incorrectly included in the quarterly recorded crime data as additional incidents.
It concluded that “An Garda Siochana provided the details of the 148,000 offences and the CSO have determined that these offences do not appear to have affected the quarterly Recorded Crime series.”
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Are these makey up numbers supplied by the number crunchers in Phoneyix Park.
@Sam Cairns: Here are the figures (murder & manslaughter)
2004 (45), 2005 (65), 2006 (70), 2007 (84), 2008 (55), 2009 (60), 2010 (58), 2011 (45), 2012 (60), 2013 (55), 2014 (55), 2015 (33), 2016 (38 + no figure for manslughter).
So the media bleating on about Ireland being murder inc etc etc baloney
@Sam Cairns: low numbers I guess. 38 murders are probably committed in America between breakfast and lunch on any given Sunday.
@MaryLou(ny)McDonald: That’s interesting murders/manslaughters pecked coming to the end of the boom.
Is that actually 38 murders or is it just 38 murders recorded on Pulse
@michael gallagher: It’s actually 19 murders but it Gardai policy to double the numbers these days
Paul Williams reads the headline, instant semi in his y-fronts. Useless c unt will get a fair bit of mileage out of this.
@Niall O D: That fool is part of the corrupt Garda clique and once they start turning on each other to save their careers he’ll be tossed to the dogs… Can’t wait…
38 murders, roughly one per county. Not too bad I suppose considering the amount of alcohol consumed on the island.
How many murders were classified as manslaughter for reasons of legal convenience though?
Gangland murders distort the overall trends concerning murders.
Better hutch, hutch, hutch or you will be killedagain…
Bs stats. Bs country. Believe nothing the “authorities” tell you.
What’s the rise in Dublin in comparison with the rest of the country would be an interesting statistic..
@sparky: That’s something the Dublin media definitely don’t want to talk about.
Murders? Shur the sc×m just plead guilty to Manslaughter and everyones happy. Keeps the gravy train moving along
@DMurph: Seven years, two suspended, out in three.
The innocent old Ireland is well gone
Ireland has always been violent.
@Jamie McCormack: innocent? Think you missed the drama a few weeks ago regarding tuam?
@Gerard Henry: in reply to this sorry…
By way of comparison, I live in a California town of 100,000 people. Last year more than 30 people were murdered. I say “more than” because there were two kidnappings by criminals in which the victim was never located.
It’s not like the Hardy Bucks out here, lads. I’ve actually purchased a pistol, which lives in a safe bolted to my closet floor. I can hear the crackle of gunfire several times during each week in the evenings. Sounds a bit like Kabul.
Enjoy your peaceful lives.
Sure how do we know that these figures weren’t doubled like the latest scandal? How can we trust the Gardai? Simple we can’t. Not after the latest going ons.
Shameful isn’t the word.
More An Garda Siocana etc.etc. traps needed now
I heard an expert on the subject say that most murders are usually just extroverted suicides.
There were 327 fatalities involving dog attacks in the US in the same time period and the actual number of farmers killed by bull attacks in Ireland is not published. These attacks usually lead to wounds which cause death months after and are rarely attributed to the bovine beef herd as that would be bad for business.
Does this include the murdering of their figures and the casualty figures in regards to the truth?
Add corporate manslaughter and diminished responsibility statistics ( I use the word respectfully) and these figures quadruple.
Should be called death role of the southern troubles.
@Mike Holmes: That’s about 703 people right?
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