Senator Eileen Flynn, a Traveller member of the Oireachtas, said she had been stopped several times by gardaí before her current role. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesAn explicit ban on racial profiling by gardaí, as well as an Independent investigation into Garda failures to respond to crimes against Travellers, especially Traveller women suffering domestic violence, must take place, according to a report published today.
“Some people in powerful positions need to start answering questions,” she said, particularly An Garda Síochána concerning raids on Traveller homes without search warrants and racial profiling in stop-and-search, and the judiciary on the experiences of Traveller defendants and crime victims in the courts.
They reported racial slurs and assaulted by gardaí. Half said they had been present when gardaí entered homes uninvited in the previous five years and just 11 per cent were shown search warrants. Reports of “excessive use of force and resulting trauma caused to families and children” during these raids gave rise to “significant human rights concerns”, notes the report.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
My own profiling tells me to be aware of any offers re tarmacadaming,gutter cleaning,replacement of roof tiles
If you ask any guard they will tell you they go out of their way to avoid having to arrest travellers.
The tax payers recommend more restrictive measures against them. Anyways it's not racism. Being a traveller isnt a race. ffs
Ie. A criminal organisation wants less policing, who would of thought that 🤣
Why would guards bother anywa, try to arrest these scumbags, get abused, threatened, spat at, bring them to court where a moron of a judge let's them off for 'hard upbringing' 'prejudice' 'racism' etc, scumbag turns and laughs at the poor guard, it's not guards fault, it's judges
Are we still allowed to call them Tinkers?
Racial profiling Do you mean try forget over the years their 'culture' of being criminals? Only a couple of weeks we watched the ethnic minority box seven shades of shite out of each other in the airport? But that's not to be remembered when they are encountered 🙈
Ffs.
I think we need to listen to what travellers are saying about how they are treated and take a long hard look at ourselves. It won't be a pretty sight but it's time for us to ditch the prejudice
The 'study' was an absolutely one sided pandering to the traveller community and PhD students to enforce their agenda. All about how travellers felt, more than actual evidence? Ask their elderly victims in rural Ireland how they feel and the community in Rathkeale. Farcical!
So the gardaí are over policing them while at the same time not responding to their domestic abuse calls, a reason to police them. That makes sense.
Did anyone ask Padraig Nally what his opinion is
We need to go the other way: record the ethnicity of every violent criminal. That way we can see who's REALLY committing the crimes. Coz blaming all the rapes and murders on Irish men is bigotry & lies.
How do you know if someone is a traveller are they green colour or black maybe blue
Hahahahahahahaha
Could have done with a bit of policing when the faction fight broke out at Dublin airport a while ago.
Travellers who don't actually travel anywhere! Causing trouble everywhere they go!
Group that commit crimes more often gets policed more often. The horror!
over policed hsahahahahhaha, if anything they get away with much more so they want the guards to stop investigating their crimes hahahahahahahahahahaha
Nonsense
I thought race was supposed to be a 'social construct' but apparently the travellers are a separate 'race' to the Irish.
Why can't they go anywhere without having a row. I'm saying it like it is. Whether people like it or not. There was a funeral recently in my town. They were out battering each other on the road, traffic at a standstill, damaging parked cars and terrifying the public
So which is it no profiling or not a spectate ethnic group, need to get your stories straight between the NGOs
Yet, the mystery of how they finance thier life style with new (ish) vans and jeeps goes on. Guess they do bitcoin mining on the side.
Being a traveller is a lifestyle choice not a race. Like being transgender or choosing your pronounce or being vegan.
I thought they wanted to be recognised as a race
Explicit ban on guards stopping criminals sought by criminals.
Travellers aren't a race. They are white Irish people. They just marry their cousins beat their wives burgle houses beat up pensioners rob steal lie cheat defraud smell talk gibberish can't read drink fight drive Hiaces live in caravans abuse horses and dogs and their own kids
What bullshit, it's not like they can be identified at random in a typical Irish crowd, this is a lobby to stop the guards doing their jobs on behalf of the Irish people.