Interesting that Jim Carroll - someone whose thoughts interest me because they're based on his own lived experience and not on opinion - is being described as someone speaking from dogma.

Good points on the crimes, Jim - though it seems to me that very often when you see robbery with violence reported the names of the arrested are Connors and Ward and Maughan… Certainly there are many settled criminals, but particularly violent robberies now seems to be interwoven with Traveller culture in a way they never were before.