GA: Thomas County deputies keep ‘watchful eye’ on sex offenders

[walb.com – 10/4/18]

THOMAS CO., GA (WALB) – Locating and registering sex offenders is a top priority for Georgia sheriff’s offices.

The Thomas County Sheriff’s Office said they verify registered sex offenders multiple times throughout the year, as part of the “Operation Watchful Eye” initiative.

Lt. Tim Watkins, Thomas County Sheriff’s Office chief investigator, said Halloween is one of those holidays that they make sure all registered sex offenders in the county are where they’re suppose to be.

“They have to be inside their residence. They cannot have any decorations up for Halloween, and their lights have to be off outside their house,” said Watkins.

Watkins said this will deter kids from walking up to their house, keeping any contact at a minimum.

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This article quoted law enforcement criminal Tim Watkins as saying of “registered $EX offenders”, “They have to be inside their residence. They cannot have any decorations up for Halloween, and their lights have to be off outside their house.”

Regarding GA law, that statement is 100% wrong. So unless this county has their own law, that statement is 100% wrong. If they do have their own law, they need to be sued ASAP. They need to be sued regardless though, simply because they are a criminal regime.

So does the LE criminal not know the law? Or perhaps the criminal was only talking about people on probation or parole and the writer made a mistake in translation?

The article also said, “Watkins said there are 166 registered sex offenders in Thomas County, and they’ll go to each residence to make sure they aren’t in violation.”

Hmmm, that is the actual total number Registered in that country and you can be sure that the large majority of them are not on probation or parole. Looks like the LE criminal is confused about the law. Big surprise. Also no surprise that they think that there needs to be some type of nonsensical “monitoring” at all on Halloween. They think public safety is better served by visiting people than it is by actually patrolling the streets to try to prevent crimes. It surely must be easier for them.

I do love the Halloween “$EX offender” stupidity though. It shows very well how clueless so many criminal LE agencies are.

All Registered people who are not on probation or parole should leave their homes on Halloween and disappear. Every single one. They should go interact with as many children as possible. That is the proper, moral, American response to this criminal stupidity.

Remember – it is important to work to keep these criminal LE agencies as broke and dysfunctional as possible. That forces them to concentrate on real work and reduces their ability to commit crimes.

“Watkins said when they made their initial visits between Sept. 16 and 18, they made several arrests, because some were in violation of their probation. Such as, not living where they’re supposed to, or having inappropriate content on their internet sites.”

They almost have to find a reason to arrest these folks to justify this action. Technicalities.

Yup. Focus all efforts to on child sex crime on Halloween which has never happened (and not likely by a registrant if it does) and overlook all the DUIs and stupid driving, which have killed a few hundred over the years. Really sensible.

Paige Dauer’s email: paige.dauer@walb.com

Email sent:
Dear Paige Dauer,

Why did you even write/report this article? Are you continuing the hysteria and myth that registered sex offenders commit new sex crimes at a high rate?

There have been 21 studies/reports, including ones from the DOJ and many states, in recent times that indicate the recidivism rate for registered sex offenders is 5.3% or less (depending on their time since the first conviction. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/05/06/despite-concerns-sex-offenders-face-new-restrictions

When was the last time a registered sex offender committed a new sex crime on Halloween? I’ll tell you… never in the last 240 years. https://narsol.org/2016/10/national-rsol-challenges-media-stop-feeding-the-hysteria/

From the article: “The goal, Watkins said, is to ensure everyone’s safety, especially the kids’ safety on Halloween.” There are more kids killed by drunken/unsafe drivers on the road than there ever will be by registered sex offenders. Why don’t we restrict/eliminate driving on Halloween? Why aren’t DUI people on a registry? Why aren’t ANY other type of criminal on a registry?

Registries don’t work; they are only cries from hysterical and emotional people, all for money, some for political gain. Stop the nonsense!

Regards,
(me)

p.s. If you REALLY want the truth, do research before you write ridiculous and hateful articles.

“Operation Watchful Eye”. Waaaaiiiit a minute. Watchful Eye? Sure sounds like they are WATCHING RCs, a traditional form of punishment like probation? So shocking.

@CR
I agree with your ideas on liberty, all things being equal. The problem is we did things that caused us to lose our liberties and now we are saying they shouldn’t pass these harsh laws because they are unfair and possibly unconstitutional (depending on who you ask). I was using a bit of irony as Tim pointed out to say they can pass so many debilitating laws for us that don’t really prevent somebody from harming a child if they really wanted to. The true solution, if they wanted to pass laws that actually were successful in their purpose, would be to have parents or adults present in situations that They Seem to think are risky. i.e. Halloween, kids on their way to school, daycores etc. One law that is logical instead of many laws that really don’t prevent these things from happening.
I have to disagree on the legalization of things like heroine. Although it may be a nice thing to think that people can sit at home and slam heroine and it has no impact on society, that is not really the case. For example look at the homeless problem this has created. We all have to deal with it here in CA and it affects all kinds of things from loss of business to decreased property values. So in my opinion you can’t just make everything legal then punish people when they do break the law. There needs to be logical preventive measures in place. The porn thing is a personal opinion and a much lengthier argument that I will save for another place.

OK, so what do you do when you don’t have any worthwhile plan to protect the public from sexual assault?
Easy, just pretend you’re doing it by ( you guessed it) and just ignore the rising list of victims brought on by an immoral and corrupt government.