Quote from: burdizzo on January 23, 2024, 06:13:05 PMQuote from: ThomasMullan on January 23, 2024, 05:47:36 PMQuote from: thewobbler on January 23, 2024, 05:39:12 PMThankfully I'm not overly familiar with A&E over the past few years.
I tell you who must be a giant big bastard of a xenophobe though; the court reporter for the Newry Democrat. Every week he manages to fill his couple of pages with a string of offences by people with Eastern European names.... some weeks there's twice as many of these names as local names. As they represent a small demographic among Newry's population, it must be the court reporter's bias.
Not once have you counted the Eastern European names vs the local names and concluded that there is twice as many.
Even if it were half as many, it'd still be an over-representation. In many European countries with longer experiences of migration than we do, immigrants - and those of a non-national background - are over-represented in the prison population.
Maybe that's because they tend to get longer sentences for the same offences than white people.
Foreign nationals and ethnic minorities receiving longer prison sentences in Ireland
"An analysis of prisoner data shows that Irish nationals in prison had an average of 6.2 previous custodial sentences, while foreign nationals had just 2.5. Foreign nationals also received statistically significantly longer sentences for drug offences (8.9 months longer) and sexual offences (15.9 months longer) than Irish people.
People with an ethnicity other than white also received statistically significantly longer sentences for drug offences (14.34 months longer) and sexual offences (32 months longer) than white people."
At any rate there's no evidence that more immigration means more crime. Unless you think the Gardai have gone all "woke."
No link between asylum seekers and increased crime, authorities state
"In the statement, the Garda said there has been no significant increase in crime statistics as a result of the increase in asylum seekers arriving in Ireland. The Department of Justice also said there is no evidence of a link between the number of asylum seekers in Ireland and an increase in crime."