Massachusetts Auditor Suzanne Bump on Tuesday criticized the Sex Offender Registry Board for what she described as a culture of passivity in tracking sex offenders, after an audit found the board did not have a current address for more than 1,700 offenders. Full Article
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17hundred. 17thousand. Doesn’t matter. “The Registry” does NOT lower the number of sex crimes committed. Doesn’t matter if the entire human population’s address and picture and vehicle reg etc, etc was listed, or if Nobody was ever listed again. The number of sex crimes will be the same, unfortunately. Nice try though. Now let’s make some progress in the fight against sex abuse, using facts, and professionals, not political pander.
The tracking and monitoring of sex offenders is pointless because it’s a waste of time, money, and lives of many people that are on the registry that are struggling to live their lives everyday. The sex offender tracking and monitoring system is not designed for safety for the public which we all like to easily believe, it was meant for humiliation, deprivation, isolation, and denial of human rights like what we witness the situation in Florida when registrants were denied shelter and refuge from the hurricane just because of their criminal past. And there are maniacs that are using the system to commit harm while knowing that they are commiting a crime, and there is a high recidivism of vigilante violence against people on the registry.
Yeah, the change of culture needed is the realization that not knowing where they are has had zero impact on anything. But we wouldn’t want to admit that fact, would we?
Wait.
If this is true…isn’t someone going to ring the bell and bring up the FACT? The FACT that if there are all these raging sex fiends running around unchecked, that means there must be a huge spike in sex offenses, right? I mean, tracking is so effective…
“It has a statutory responsibility to ensure that information is kept up to date, accurate and secure.”
^It doesn’t MATTER if the information is current, complete or accurate, Megan’s Law (community notification or whatever) simply will NOT curtail, thwart or prevent ANYTHING.
“Rep. David Vieira, R-Falmouth, suggested that lawmakers look at their ability to withhold licenses, deny public benefits and even freeze bank accounts and credit cards of sex offenders “until you show up and tell us where you are.”
^ What in the actual HELL!? This idiot is actually serious!
And so how many reoffended when they weren’t being monitored? It seems they left that tid-bit out.