Let people see the waste that the war on drugs creates.
youbigfatmess on
There was an analysis [posted on Twitter](https://x.com/CianOConcubhair/status/1829518195662987489) by a lecturer working in Maynooth University of this particular clip and style of content, which I will paste below in case you don’t have an account etc:
“First thing to say about this kind of police programming It is almost always designed to provide positive propaganda on policing This type of access is only granted by police forces as it is understood the coverage will be positive.
There are very few exceptions to thisIt’s worth assessing this clip from the end, where we discover what all this ‘serious police business was about’ If you’ve not watched it, the Gardaí here find a bag of what they say is ‘suspected cannabis’ It is quite a small bag of cannabis. Despite this being a very small bag of cannabis the behaviour of the Gardaí involved & the tone the editors of this programme have adopted suggest something altogether more serious &, indeed, sinister.
Reactions to this clip among those I received it from, and professional peers I have shared it with, include ‘pathetic’ ‘so embarrassing’ & ‘the f**king state of this’
I find it hard to improve upon such critical analysis, but I will do my bestWhy would I agree with such stark evaluations? Well, in my many years of studying policing-media relations, I don’t believe I have encountered a clip as hilarious cringe-worthy as this.
Why did RTÉ think this clip was worth using for promotional purposes? Perhaps more importantly, why did the Gardaí involved think this was a warrant worth staging for the journalists. And believe me, these exercises are highly staged. Not, I should be add, by the person who has had their house raided by a remarkable posse of Gardaí
During my doctoral research I attended some very large scale warrant-executing operations and operational commanders gave not insignificant consideration to the journalists they’d invited along to cover the affair”
TheStoicNihilist on
CCFCEIGHTYFOUR on
Looks like it was a bag of bags
Prestigious_Talk6652 on
Dunno about the veracity of the story,but a local weed dealer says the Guards tapped him for fifty quid and let him off.
Guess this isn’t the kind of stuff that ends up on these documentaries.
tvwatcherguy on
Lads I know yous paused!!
Desperate-Buffalo- on
Truly pathetic and laughable.
“Keeping people safe”
Having been truly failed twice in past year by An Garda Siochana regarding a violent ex, yet seeing them pull off cringy publicity stunts like this is disheartening.
They are truly rotten to the core as an institution between corruption and just general apathy. Total respect to the exodus of younger gardai leaving.
RollerPoid on
Documentary about Gardai shows Gardai doing they’re job.
Genuinely shocked.
up_the_dubs on
Did they call it hemp by any chance?
Celticscooter on
A now “Calm your self”!! 😂
BazingaQQ on
Well, now you know what your tax-euros are being spent on after you read about tourists being beaten up and murdered in the city center…
AbradolfLincler77 on
What a fucking waste of money. Why the fuck are we allowing the government to fund this useless excuse for a national television service 🤦♂️
GrandFated on
State of our country. Pathetic
High_Flyer87 on
Waste of fucking time.
Every single public body in this country seems to prioritise low hanging fruit out of pure laziness.
The calibre of people hired aswell to some roles is well below par (overweight tubby folks) and that encourages a shite culture. There’s a lot of high skilled jobs they wouldn’t be let near.
There’s a lad I know who had a Juvenile Liason officers for all his teenage years that was let into the Guards.
Honestly the absolute state of this place.
Smiley_Dub on
I find this off tbh.
So we are under-resourced. We don’t have numbers enough for effective, visible policing SO we demonstrate to the public how effective and visible we are by going on TV.
They’d have more engaged viewers if they put this up on the gram or tiktok.
But without an effective and visible presence on the ground dealing with the issues people want dealt with, this becomes more of a comedy show than anything else.
Respect for the guards is gone. It’s as simple as that.
They have to be resourced well enough to be effective and visible, and I don’t think anyone at this stage would argue this is something going to happen any time soon.
Of course, the final piece of the jigsaw is more places in prison, and while we are under-resourced cell-wise, sentences are handed down like slaps on the wrist.
Someone said here recently that custodial sentences are pretty much for financial crimes, and I’m sad to admit I kinda agree with this point of view.
No one is interested in a programme like this, but resources are tight.
I don’t care for RTE anymore. There. I’ve actually said it.
andtellmethis on
Looking forward to the episode investigating the over 600 domestic violence calls that were ignored during the pandemic!
SpectorCorp on
Do these cops feel proud or cool about being part of this ? Jesus everyone involved has miscalculated badly, very badly.
Dublindude96 on
When is this out?
ultratunaman on
Bag of weed. That’s it.
Jesus you’d swear they had kilos of cocaine in the house or something the amount of cops.
Nah just a bag of weed.
Next episode they go after Dave who hasn’t paid his TV license.
Beautiful-Captain453 on
I love how the are carrying the bag like it’s a bag a dog shit at the end 😂
Separate-Steak-9786 on
Its time the rotate the people who whipped the passport office into shape into the guards
Complex-Constant-631 on
Scum, absolute scum, criminalizing these people and acting morally outraged over a plant that does nothing but good for society and actually helps people get off drink and actual drugs. Ireland as always decades behind, embarrassing.
Next-Roof-6568 on
This is sad. Progressive country with repressive systems. Every where else has changed perceptions on medical and therapeutical use. A revenue Ireland could invest in and benefit from. We will hear equal rights when it suites them and then with mental and health rights it falls apart again. It’s so confusing the system sometimes
SassyBonassy on
Ah here piss off and police the roads instead of this harmless shite
Aware_Ad9809 on
Is this a joke
mrdizzle1981 on
“Yes,got it!” ……quota of low hanging fruit must have been hit for the day. Meanwhile regular folk getting battered and robbed daily in city centre. Beggers belief
Weak_Low_8193 on
It’s hilarious how out of touch they are that they think the general public will commend them or be impressed by this.
MotherDucker95 on
“Yes”, like she just scored a goal in 5 a side. What an embarrassment this this
LikeAGlove109 on
Another reason to not pay the TV license.
Inexorable_Fenian on
Genuine question – what’s with yer wan in the jeans?
It gives off a vibe of “shit we only have 3 Gardaí for this search warrant, can you call Ailbhe in for 20 minutes for the footage?”
Also, the sigh of relief when yer wan says “got it” as if there was some major resistance to their efforts.
This goes to show how far out of touch the Gardaí are along with RTE.
halibfrisk on
Pathetic is right
hugsbosson on
Looks like they had a search warrant and the guy throws the bag over the fence when they arrive.. doesn’t look to me like the warrant is *for* the bag.
AncientWisdomTooth on
Pathetic. No wonder people hate them so much. Start tackling real crime
demonspawns_ghost on
Bould lads, bould lads…
gettingthere_pastit on
Why show the Garda’s comment about the crying baby and then not pursue it? Anyone know of a baby that has cried but you are sure has not been abused?
I think it happens, now and then. Maybe?
I’ve heard of all sorts of scum that gardai say are “entitled to their good name” , yet a garda can imply child neglect ( a form of abuse ), move on to drama and leave that impression to do it’s insiduous work?
Making a big deal of a small amount of cannabis is one example of the hyperbolic propaganda here, implying child abuse with no follow up should be considered professionally unethical for both gardai and broadcasters. Certainly not a tool for propaganda / ratings.
It’s a tiny moment even in that short clip but the apparent exploitation of those societal fears…
MaxiStavros on
Heroes. Today he’s possessing a quantity of hashish, but tomorrow he could be worse than Pablo Escobar. I feel safer now due to these brave Gardai.
HappyMike91 on
The Gardaí go after people for bags of cannabis, but far right thugs can harass and intimidate librarians with impunity because they think that books about LGBT people are pornographic. I think the priorities of the Gardaí are a bit skewed.
Melodic-Chocolate-53 on
RTE do a “Reefer Madness”.
RuuphLessRick on
throw all those fucking pigs in the pen. its a plant FFS. Throwing someone into the court system for a fucking plant, draconian and a very, very ENGLISH method of justice.
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Good.
Let people see the waste that the war on drugs creates.
There was an analysis [posted on Twitter](https://x.com/CianOConcubhair/status/1829518195662987489) by a lecturer working in Maynooth University of this particular clip and style of content, which I will paste below in case you don’t have an account etc:
“First thing to say about this kind of police programming It is almost always designed to provide positive propaganda on policing This type of access is only granted by police forces as it is understood the coverage will be positive.
There are very few exceptions to thisIt’s worth assessing this clip from the end, where we discover what all this ‘serious police business was about’ If you’ve not watched it, the Gardaí here find a bag of what they say is ‘suspected cannabis’ It is quite a small bag of cannabis. Despite this being a very small bag of cannabis the behaviour of the Gardaí involved & the tone the editors of this programme have adopted suggest something altogether more serious &, indeed, sinister.
Reactions to this clip among those I received it from, and professional peers I have shared it with, include ‘pathetic’ ‘so embarrassing’ & ‘the f**king state of this’
I find it hard to improve upon such critical analysis, but I will do my bestWhy would I agree with such stark evaluations? Well, in my many years of studying policing-media relations, I don’t believe I have encountered a clip as hilarious cringe-worthy as this.
Why did RTÉ think this clip was worth using for promotional purposes? Perhaps more importantly, why did the Gardaí involved think this was a warrant worth staging for the journalists. And believe me, these exercises are highly staged. Not, I should be add, by the person who has had their house raided by a remarkable posse of Gardaí
During my doctoral research I attended some very large scale warrant-executing operations and operational commanders gave not insignificant consideration to the journalists they’d invited along to cover the affair”
Looks like it was a bag of bags
Dunno about the veracity of the story,but a local weed dealer says the Guards tapped him for fifty quid and let him off.
Guess this isn’t the kind of stuff that ends up on these documentaries.
Lads I know yous paused!!
Truly pathetic and laughable.
“Keeping people safe”
Having been truly failed twice in past year by An Garda Siochana regarding a violent ex, yet seeing them pull off cringy publicity stunts like this is disheartening.
They are truly rotten to the core as an institution between corruption and just general apathy. Total respect to the exodus of younger gardai leaving.
Documentary about Gardai shows Gardai doing they’re job.
Genuinely shocked.
Did they call it hemp by any chance?
A now “Calm your self”!! 😂
Well, now you know what your tax-euros are being spent on after you read about tourists being beaten up and murdered in the city center…
What a fucking waste of money. Why the fuck are we allowing the government to fund this useless excuse for a national television service 🤦♂️
State of our country. Pathetic
Waste of fucking time.
Every single public body in this country seems to prioritise low hanging fruit out of pure laziness.
The calibre of people hired aswell to some roles is well below par (overweight tubby folks) and that encourages a shite culture. There’s a lot of high skilled jobs they wouldn’t be let near.
There’s a lad I know who had a Juvenile Liason officers for all his teenage years that was let into the Guards.
Honestly the absolute state of this place.
I find this off tbh.
So we are under-resourced. We don’t have numbers enough for effective, visible policing SO we demonstrate to the public how effective and visible we are by going on TV.
They’d have more engaged viewers if they put this up on the gram or tiktok.
But without an effective and visible presence on the ground dealing with the issues people want dealt with, this becomes more of a comedy show than anything else.
Respect for the guards is gone. It’s as simple as that.
They have to be resourced well enough to be effective and visible, and I don’t think anyone at this stage would argue this is something going to happen any time soon.
Of course, the final piece of the jigsaw is more places in prison, and while we are under-resourced cell-wise, sentences are handed down like slaps on the wrist.
Someone said here recently that custodial sentences are pretty much for financial crimes, and I’m sad to admit I kinda agree with this point of view.
No one is interested in a programme like this, but resources are tight.
I don’t care for RTE anymore. There. I’ve actually said it.
Looking forward to the episode investigating the over 600 domestic violence calls that were ignored during the pandemic!
Do these cops feel proud or cool about being part of this ? Jesus everyone involved has miscalculated badly, very badly.
When is this out?
Bag of weed. That’s it.
Jesus you’d swear they had kilos of cocaine in the house or something the amount of cops.
Nah just a bag of weed.
Next episode they go after Dave who hasn’t paid his TV license.
I love how the are carrying the bag like it’s a bag a dog shit at the end 😂
Its time the rotate the people who whipped the passport office into shape into the guards
Scum, absolute scum, criminalizing these people and acting morally outraged over a plant that does nothing but good for society and actually helps people get off drink and actual drugs. Ireland as always decades behind, embarrassing.
This is sad. Progressive country with repressive systems. Every where else has changed perceptions on medical and therapeutical use. A revenue Ireland could invest in and benefit from. We will hear equal rights when it suites them and then with mental and health rights it falls apart again. It’s so confusing the system sometimes
Ah here piss off and police the roads instead of this harmless shite
Is this a joke
“Yes,got it!” ……quota of low hanging fruit must have been hit for the day. Meanwhile regular folk getting battered and robbed daily in city centre. Beggers belief
It’s hilarious how out of touch they are that they think the general public will commend them or be impressed by this.
“Yes”, like she just scored a goal in 5 a side. What an embarrassment this this
Another reason to not pay the TV license.
Genuine question – what’s with yer wan in the jeans?
It gives off a vibe of “shit we only have 3 Gardaí for this search warrant, can you call Ailbhe in for 20 minutes for the footage?”
Also, the sigh of relief when yer wan says “got it” as if there was some major resistance to their efforts.
This goes to show how far out of touch the Gardaí are along with RTE.
Pathetic is right
Looks like they had a search warrant and the guy throws the bag over the fence when they arrive.. doesn’t look to me like the warrant is *for* the bag.
Pathetic. No wonder people hate them so much. Start tackling real crime
Bould lads, bould lads…
Why show the Garda’s comment about the crying baby and then not pursue it? Anyone know of a baby that has cried but you are sure has not been abused?
I think it happens, now and then. Maybe?
I’ve heard of all sorts of scum that gardai say are “entitled to their good name” , yet a garda can imply child neglect ( a form of abuse ), move on to drama and leave that impression to do it’s insiduous work?
Making a big deal of a small amount of cannabis is one example of the hyperbolic propaganda here, implying child abuse with no follow up should be considered professionally unethical for both gardai and broadcasters. Certainly not a tool for propaganda / ratings.
It’s a tiny moment even in that short clip but the apparent exploitation of those societal fears…
Heroes. Today he’s possessing a quantity of hashish, but tomorrow he could be worse than Pablo Escobar. I feel safer now due to these brave Gardai.
The Gardaí go after people for bags of cannabis, but far right thugs can harass and intimidate librarians with impunity because they think that books about LGBT people are pornographic. I think the priorities of the Gardaí are a bit skewed.
RTE do a “Reefer Madness”.
throw all those fucking pigs in the pen. its a plant FFS. Throwing someone into the court system for a fucking plant, draconian and a very, very ENGLISH method of justice.