Galway Advertiser 1974/1974_08_22/GA_22081974_E1_004.pdf 

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LAW A N D ORDER That we are as shocked as anybody else by the brutal murder in connection with the bank robbery last week goes without saying. But it is not enough to throw our hands in horror and say the world is gone to the devil and do nothing about it. Criticism about alleged un-preparadness for such an emergency in the only real urban area in the West and even suggestions for improving security at our banks, may, possibly do some good. But the issues go much further than this. It is true to say that we are living in an amazingly difficult time in Ireland right now. Sooner or later the Northern violence, the lack of respect for the law, the easy use of guns in our streets will spread like a cancer throughout the country -- as we learned already when the bombs went off in Dublin and Monaghan. But it would be wrong to blame the North in a general way or to suggest that all who oppose the present system in the North are criminals. The fact is that we tolerated a total lack of justice in the North for 50 years. We still tolerate internment without trial -- a negation of all that law and order should stand for. We are reaping the bitter harvest and we will continue to do so until we seek not only peace but peace with justice as well. Patching it up will no longer be enough. Pretence solutions would only pass on the problem to the next generation. And while the Northern tragedy is, without a doubt, one of the main forces which has made lawlessness almost fashionable in Ireland, there are other forces within our own community which have helped its growth. We are not concerned here with the efficiency of the Gardai, (they have proved themselves as cham pions to the law abiding of this city) nor the rights or wrongs of certain legal practices or the undermining of respect for the law which has grown as a result of playing politics with certain legislation. Neither do we subscribe to the rational humanism of the eighteenth century philosophers who suggested that there are no such thing as evil people, only evil laws and environment. We believe that ultimately man is responsible for his actions, that he is a free agent and that while he is tempted to evil he can choose to do good. But having said that we also agree with those who hold that in bad living conditions and in situations of economic deprivation,' the choices for certain unfortunate in dividuals can be limited. We accept the research of social workers on this matter and we endorse the findings of sociologists that crime breeds fastest in deprived urban areas. Further research has shown that the young generation of wrong doers in the concrete jungles of Europe and North America need not always be poor, need not always be badly educated, and frequently are not deprived in any material sense. This is the kernel of the matter. Those who go wrong are usually alienated, uprooted, lacking in a chance to participate in a genuine family and community circle. They are "outsiders". And all the evidence suggests that they become "outsiders" in the materialistic, impersonal and artifical surroundings of the very type of anonymous suburbia we are now developing here in Galway. Long before the Old Galway Society launched its "Old Galway for People" campaign this paper has argued against the one-generation mushroom suburb as opposed to the traditional mixed-age community. We have argued against too rapid centralisation in Galway city and in favour of the healthy village community. It is a matter we shall return to again. In the meantime nobody should pretend that last week's tragedy is an isolated incident. Crime is on the increase in Galway in most forms. Pushing the problem under the carpet will no longer suffice.

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