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LATEST FIGURES FROM the CSO show how there has been a significant reduction in the number of crimes happening during the Covid crisis.
The stats body today released their second-quarter figures, which show how burglaries, thefts as well as sexual assaults are down during the period April-June.
For example, the number of burglary offences recorded during the second quarter of the year was 52.8% lower than for the equivalent period in 2019.
Other stats include:
While there has been a welcome reduction in the above offences, there have been areas which have seen an increase during the Covid crisis.
Fraud, deception and related offences are up 7.1% with 7,887 incidents recorded.
Drug offences are up 13.5% with 22,773 offences recorded in the three month period.
These statistics are categorised by the CSO as” Under Reservation”. This means that the quality of these statistics do not meet the standards required of official statistics published by the CSO.
Sam Scriven, a statistician at the CSO, said the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on levels of recorded crime is apparent in the latest statistics.
“The number of victims of assault recorded in Q2 2020 was 989 or 19.2% lower than for the corresponding period in 2019. This fall was mostly accounted for by a reduction in male victims, down 787 (26%) on Q2 2019.
“Younger age groups for females showed reductions in the number of victims, however the numbers of female victims in age groups 30-44 (up 1.8%), and 60 or over (up 18.4%) were higher in Q2 2020 than in Q2 2019.”
Harder to break into a house undetected when the home owners are in, I warrant.
Sure they were all getting 350 !
@Fergal Doyle: Really? So they quit their jobs being criminals and the state paid them €350. Well thats fkin amazing…
@Ian Breathnach: sure they were probably on the scratcher already and the rate got jacked up.
@Fergal Doyle: This is why universal income is a great idea, it proves that a large portion of crime occurs because people have fallen into poverty and desperation.
@Stephen Foster: it didn’t. People who were on social welfare payments prior to Lockdown didn’t get any increase. Only people that were working and then put out of work due to Covid got the 350 PUP
@Rochelle: great idea. We already have €720k social housing in donnybrook for people who can’t be bothered buying a house in carlow and commuting to Dublin to pay for it.
The tricky bit will come when no one is prepared to work for this socialist utopia.
Imagine that. A visible Garda presence discourages crime.
Maybe they should be out and about the whole time. Hadn’t seen a Garda walking the neighbourhood in years until April and haven’t seen them since lockdown.
@Nioe: where does it say anything about visible gardai? More likely due to lockdowns, restrictions and people in their houses during week days. But I would agree that visible Gardai can deter crime.
@Nioe: we never saw them walking the neighbourhood even during lockdown
Burglars are usually very fastidious about wearing masks to be fair.
@Evan: Cause there scared to death, scared to look, ain’t no such things as halfway crooks.
My thoughts are with burglars at this tough time for them.
There would be seriously something wrong if there was a rise during lockdown.
An argument for a universal basic income?
@Brian O’ Leary: dont know how you figure that out?
Anybody already on the dole didn’t get increased payments.
Probably more of an argument for a police state if you were trying to argue for anything (which I’m not)!
@Brian O’ Leary: More of an argument for working from home
And I would imagine that the confiscation of drugs is up the same, a good thing
They could be protesting next and looking for an incentive plan
There was more money in stealing poor dogs
Well Obviously. Its a bit more difficult to break into someones house when everyones home.
Ford transit owners association would have had their activities curtailed.
The biggest drug seizures in country in lockdown. Crime smashed , numbers in every town to spread out force.
Finally we see what happens when all the people who require a report so they can be
employed are sent home. The polis can just do job while also keeping country in lockdown.
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