With an increase in some of the state’s most dangerous sex offenders living outside of prisons and on probation, some of the state officers assigned to watch them have asked the Legislature for a raise to keep the most experienced on board. Full Article
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My question is just when are these people no longer considered dangerous. Are they telling everyone a guy whos been out 10 to 20 years crime free is still somehow dangerous or a predator? Land of the free…..yeah right…….
Are they implying that 20 years ago their weren’t as many people convicted of sex crimes out in the community? And today’s “Registered sex offenders” are more dangerous? Hahahahahahahaha.
While I understand that I am bias on this subject, I have always found probation to be a bit of a useless agency. I think the fundamental idea of being arrested and being put on some sort of intermediary punishment makes a bunch of sense. The court tells you that you are now under their thumb and they are giving you another chance, don’t eff up in the next xx years or you will be doing some real time, state time. The problem is that the position of Probation Officer was invented and everything went downhill from there.
Anyone who has spent anytime in a county jail knows that the high majority of the people are sitting waiting for a violation hearing or on a petty drug offense. In a block with 46 residences, I took a non-scientific poll and 38 were in for Probation/parole violation.
32 – Technical (21 hot urine)
6 – New Crimes
6 – New crimes waiting on bail, or remanded (which means no money for bail) and two transfers waiting to go “upstate”
2 – were serving 30 – 60 day sentences (dui and B&E)
With lifetime probation being a “new thing” and private prisons (mostly at the county level) spouting up all over, I can assure you that the position of PO and the expansion of local private prisons is going to explode. And this is completely artificially created by fear mongering elected officials that are simply looking for the lowest hanging fruit . Just my opinion, as a non-volunteered member, of the Lowest Hanging Fruit
Make them take a pay cut and see if there wonderful laws on protecting children is worth going hungry.
I remember my probation officer. She was really incompetent. I can remember the judge giving me permission to do something, and then she yelled at me for 20 minutes because she said I had violated my probation. I am not sure my probation officer though she was a boot camp drill Sargent.
I wonder where they got their data. According to BJS, there were 272,242 people on probation in FL as of 1/1/2007, not 166,966 (www.justicestudies.com/pubs/livelink8-1.pdf). (Per the link below, as of March 2016, only 136,385 were in community corrections.) More importantly, I didn’t see anything in the article saying it was specifically RCs causing POs to want more money. The quotes and statements are mish-mashed together, so it’s unclear if/when they’re talking about probationers in general and RCs in particular. From what I read it’s being underpaid vs. other DOC people that bothers them. Also, according to FL’s own statistics (http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/Quickfacts.html), RCs comprise only 4.9% of the supervised “clientele.” I guess the mere mention of a 30% bump in RCs in 10 years warrants the leap. Never mind the State’s draconian handling of RCs as a contributing factor to this increase.
Hi Group,
Quick story. I was arrested in 1991 and took a plea of 10 years of probation in 1993. Now this is the state of Texas. My first officer was Alice. I had married my high school sweetheart and we moved to Florida and Virginia due to the Navy. I moved out of state for 2 years 1994-1996. I reported to my officer once a month and sent in my 40 bucks that was the biggest concern make sure you send in your 40 bucks.
I went through a divorce moved back to Texas and was assigned a new officer. This guy was the District Attorney’s brother and by the way still is. Registration did not begin until Sept 1st 1997. At that time I was reporting about every other month. This by far was the easiest thing I had to deal with. In 2002 was verbally let off not to report again. I had already paid off the entire probation payments. It was not until 2003 my ten years I was officially let off of paper. Now Texas is one tough state. Still today county probation officers do not make much over 40,000 and more restrictions than I was going through. but even at the time the officers were over worked and did not care to much at all…..