Do we really need new sex offender laws every time a child is killed?

Admin

First, we need to get out of the way the accusations, based on the title of this post, that I don’t care about the victims. I care about the victims much, much more than those who persist in supporting a system that all but ignores the victims and apparently doesn’t care about any victims except those victimized by registered sex offenders.

Florida has just passed a plethora of laws, and is looking to pass more, under the guise of protecting children from those registered sex offenders. Full Opinion Piece

Related posts

Subscribe
Notify of

We welcome a lively discussion with all view points - keeping in mind...

 

  1. Submissions must be in English
  2. Your submission will be reviewed by one of our volunteer moderators. Moderating decisions may be subjective.
  3. Please keep the tone of your comment civil and courteous. This is a public forum.
  4. Swear words should be starred out such as f*k and s*t and a**
  5. Please avoid the use of derogatory labels.  Always use person-first language.
  6. Please stay on topic - both in terms of the organization in general and this post in particular.
  7. Please refrain from general political statements in (dis)favor of one of the major parties or their representatives.
  8. Please take personal conversations off this forum.
  9. We will not publish any comments advocating for violent or any illegal action.
  10. We cannot connect participants privately - feel free to leave your contact info here. You may want to create a new / free, readily available email address that are not personally identifiable.
  11. Please refrain from copying and pasting repetitive and lengthy amounts of text.
  12. Please do not post in all Caps.
  13. If you wish to link to a serious and relevant media article, legitimate advocacy group or other pertinent web site / document, please provide the full link. No abbreviated / obfuscated links. Posts that include a URL may take considerably longer to be approved.
  14. We suggest to compose lengthy comments in a desktop text editor and copy and paste them into the comment form
  15. We will not publish any posts containing any names not mentioned in the original article.
  16. Please choose a short user name that does not contain links to other web sites or identify real people.  Do not use your real name.
  17. Please do not solicit funds
  18. No discussions about weapons
  19. If you use any abbreviation such as Failure To Register (FTR), Person Forced to Register (PFR) or any others, the first time you use it in a thread, please expand it for new people to better understand.
  20. All commenters are required to provide a real email address where we can contact them.  It will not be displayed on the site.
  21. Please send any input regarding moderation or other website issues via email to moderator [at] all4consolaws [dot] org
  22. We no longer post articles about arrests or accusations, only selected convictions. If your comment contains a link to an arrest or accusation article we will not approve your comment.
  23. If addressing another commenter, please address them by exactly their full display name, do not modify their name. 
ACSOL, including but not limited to its board members and agents, does not provide legal advice on this website.  In addition, ACSOL warns that those who provide comments on this website may or may not be legal professionals on whose advice one can reasonably rely.  
 

2 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Let’s do some simple math here using these numbers since law makers don’t know simple math, or simple anything for that matter;

31,000 released over 14 yrs= 2,214 released/year
600 (hundreds!?) of the 31,000 = 2% re-offended
600 re-offences over 14 yrs = 43 average per year re-offences
43 average re-offences per year of the 2214 average released offenders = 1.9% re-offences.

The math bears out the low recidivism rates on average for this “dangerous” group of people. Just an FYI to throw into the mix; your son or daughter is more likely to be molested by a Florida cop than by a released sex offender.

0
Reply

Lest one may think I blow smoke out my hind parts regarding police misconduct (in Florida). My numbers come from a 2010 NPMSRP national Police Misconduct Report. The report states that Florida has a higher than average rate of police misconduct; average is 977/100K officers while Florida is 1081/100K officers. 9.3% of misconduct by police is sexual in nature, with half of those being against minors. If we take the averages of 9.3% times the 120,000 officers in Florida, we get 100.5 incidents of sexual misconduct in Florida with 51% against minors, or 51 and change sex offenses against minors by cops in Florida. Let me remind you, that these are only the reported offenses. So…by my math, 51 > 43 by almost 19% so the children in Florida are 19% more likely to be molested by a cop than by a violent and dangerous sex offender.

I’m thinking that Florida should pass a plethora of laws against violent and dangerous police officers, with enhancements and lifetime registration, mental/psych testing, residency restrictions, loss of housing and employment, hell, take their damn retirement and put it in a “victims fund”!

0
Reply