Halloween 2015 Recap

Hmm…?? This is quite odd; I didn’t get my space invaded this Halloween by the badge wearing domestic terrorists! Same thing last year!!!! My guilded prison is in San Bernardino County. Any other inland empire registry victims out there? Did you get a visit?

I did get the visit early afternoon. I’m on probation. A P.O. showed up with six LAPD officers in uniform and two plain-clothed officers. They knocked on my door. When I answered, “Who’s there?”, they stated stated, “Probation.” I opened and complied. I had to wait in my apartment hallway with my hands cuffed behind me while they searched. The whole event took approximately 25 minutes during which they asked me questions about a picture and attempted to accuse me of a violation. I calmly replied with information that proved my innocence. When they finished searching, they brought me back inside and asked me to confirm that nothing was missing. I agreed that, despite the mess, nothing appeared to be taken. All in all, a slightly less-than-pleasant scenario that cost a witch hunt minded society more tax dollars for police OT.

We have no Halloween restrictions and no visitors. I did read, though, that a lot of candy was filled with razor blades, pills, etc and parents are advised to have the candy checked before consuming. Other than than that, they don’t believe, it is a real threat! Really?

The CDCR has worn a costume of a protector of our children, while tricking the public into believing there is a horrendous danger of sex offender waiting for them on Halloween. The CDCR used Operation Boo to claim they were protecting our children from sex offenders living in their neighborhood Their thinking, twenty-one years ago, was not based on any long-term studies, instead it was based on fear and lies. The CDCR issued a report for 2014 showing the re-offending rate of what they call a sex offender as .08% that is less than one percent.

What a minute, I thought the truth was these individuals are re-offending all the time! So, what is the purpose now of Operation Boo? Why is CDCR wearing this costume of a protector? It may have to do with their total failure a few years ago? Maybe you don’t remember this Nightmare from August 2009.

Her name is Jaycee Dugard; she was eleven when Phillip and Nancy Garrido kidnapped her. Phillip was a registered sex offender under the oversight of the DAPO. Did his Parole Agent ever go to this offender on Halloween? If they had, they would have found this young girl being held captive, after giving birth to two of Phillip’s children. According to the news reports, the only reason Garrido was caught had nothing to do with Parole it was a college security person who noticed something was wrong. If you read the agreement the CDCR made with the Dugard family the CDCR admit the Parole Agents did not perform the right steps, but the agreement makes it very clear the state and the officers have immunity. Did these men lose their jobs because of their incompetent behavior? Did the 20 million dollars coming out of the voters pockets for CDCR to pay off the family for their incompetence make everything better? Because of what the CDCR did not do to protect Jaycee, and because of what Phillip Garrido did, the CDCR implemented their newest costume of protection called “The Containment Model.”

CDCR started this idea that our children are not safe on Halloween from sex offenders. This does not make sense, here is why. The CDCR releases sex offender’s everyday who have served their sentence for a sexual offense. These men are now part of the new “Containment Model,” which means they have more oversight by a Parole Agent, wear GPS, and take Polygraphs to check behavior. These Paroled offenders may return to their families and they live in our communities.

But the actions we see from the CDCR toward the offenders they have released are totally different. Why? If the CDCR believes these men are dangerous predators, and they fear they will re-offend, why were they released? The process in place now is the SVP Act, which screens offender’s before they leave prison, if the state psychologists believe a prisoner is too dangerous, the civil commitment law is used to prevent them from release. They are sent to the state mental hospital in Coalinga, California for treatment. But this civil law is only applied to a very small group of prisoners.
Therefore, if CDCR released them to Parole knowing they are dangerous and fear them re-offending especially on Halloween, then CDCR is responsible for releasing them in the first place. However, according to the agreement CDCR and Governor Brown signed with the Dugard family, the CDCR and its employees are immune from prosecution for their errors. What the CDCR is saying is “We released these offenders but we worry they will strike again, especially on Halloween.” The CDCR is talking double talk; if these offenders were released then they are not the “worst of the worst,” which will kidnap, rape and murder.

And yet, they warn our communities to be extra vigilant especially toward someone on Megan’s Website. And, if your child is taken and held for years due to the negligence of a Parole Agent, they are immune.

The CDCR has contrived a way to make our communities feel frightened and worried about our children based on lies and the advertisement of this fear by the media. Make them stop. Change policy. Call your politicians. Stop voting for laws that do not solve a problem. The CDCR is wearing a clown suit and they continue to juggle the lives of our children by claiming they are here to protect them. More lies, more programs, more of your money spent on useless operations. Operation Boo needs to take off its costume and find a new job where they will be responsible for their behavior, just as much as they expect an offender to take responsibility for theirs.