Halloween is right around the corner, and local law enforcement are making sure the hundreds of sex offenders in Jasper County are following the law.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office already keeps a close eye on registered sex offenders and Halloween is no different. They have already started to reach out to offenders to make sure their in compliance with the law, which includes ensuring they are on the sex offender registry and posting the proper signage on their home on Halloween.
“Nowadays, you never know what you’re going to get,” explained Joplin parent LauRae Howard. “You never know what’s going to be on the other side of the door when you knock.”
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With Halloween just a few days away, local law enforcement is taking the time to ensure all local sex offenders are in compliance with the law. In Missouri, offenders must turn off all lights at ther home at 5 p.m. on Halloween night.
“That they must be at their residence between the hours of 5 pm to 10:30 pm,” Jasper County Detective Roy Masters explained. “They must have a sign that’s posted that says “No candy or treats at this residence.’”
And even with those laws in place, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office goes the extra mile to follow through that those rules are being followed.
“We send out letters to all of our offenders that remind them, we even include a sign in the letter so they don’t even have to make a sign up to put out — we’ve supplied one for them,” Masters added. “We even request that they let us know if they’re going to be working during that time so they can save a little bit of time and energy when we go to try and verify and do compliance checks.”
Oh My God. Its just SO over the top. All the time and energy spent on an issue that has proven needs NO time and energy spent on it. I think a bill should be introduced to Congress that would simply abolish Halloween altogether. There, problem solved (for the entire US) PERMANENTLY.
So pathetic. The people who support this nonsense are just such a bunch of flaming idiots. What a disgrace. Could the U.S. look any more idiotic these days? And of course this is very far from our only area of idiocy. I still remember when we tried to move to the much more intelligent metric system but we were all too stupid to manage that. The entire rest of the civilized world uses it. Amerika is “exceptional”, all right. Exceptionally stupid and bottom of the barrel in so many ways. Leading the way with “$EX offender” stupidity.
Anyway, I don’t have the time or inclination right now to do much research on Missouri’s Halloween “law” but it does seem like it affects only all Registered People who were convicted after the “law” was enacted (8/28/2018). I did see that numerous money-grubbing law firms stated that and also a news article from last year that seemed well researched and said:
(https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/sex-offender-faces-a-lifetime-on-the-registry/article_0e4c39ba-4fdc-11e8-9c05-837b9580cd57.html)
IF that is the case, and I believe it is, then this particular news article is super dangerous because they have led their brilliant readers who would pay attention to this drivel to believe that ALL “$EX offenders” are being controlled on Halloween and the world is safe. But only SOME “$EX offenders” are being controlled so obviously there is still extreme danger that the law enforcement criminals (LECs) are not able to effectively control. That is a HUGE public safety fail. Wow. Children will certainly be attacked and molested all over the state! Only the children of criminally negligent, terrible parents, of course. But never mind that. Nanny Big Government doesn’t care about that. They care about PR stunts, safety theater, and above all, growing bigger.
Buuuuuuttttt …. Missouri’s state LECs say that this “law” does apply to ALL Registered People (https://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/MSHPWeb/PatrolDivisions/CRID/SOR/factsheet.html). I think that they are just failing and making a mistake, but maybe not. Or perhaps it is an intentional mistake. It would hardly be the first time that LECs have intentionally misled the public.
But take just a casual glance at that web page if you want to see just what a giant pile of stupid their Registries have been. What a great display of what a bunch of morons those people in Missouri are!! What a waste and public safety fail. I’m sure they are following in the footsteps of their completely and totally failed War on Drugs though. Actual results and reality will never matter much and they will do stupid forever.
Personally, I expect that I’ll never help law enforcement in any way again. I will work hard to ensure they are dysfunctional and ineffective. At least tens of millions of people are doing the same thing. That has mattered and will continue to matter. Wage war. THAT is what the Registries are doing.
“…we even include a sign in the letter so they don’t even have to make a sign up to put out — we’ve supplied one for them,”
Oh, how fucking thoughtful.
I got your sign “right here,” ya ignorant, money wasting, life destroying, fear mongering Stazi asshole (and I mean this in the nicest possible way): Fuuuuuuck youuuuu!
Shit, why don’t you include a suicide while your at it. “We even include a noose, a revolver loaded with a single bullet, plus a box of extra sharp razor blades so that when the public humiliation becomes completely unbearable, they have the convenience choice when deciding how to free themselves of the ungodly, soul crushing pain.”
What, the rest of the year they do NOT strictly enforce RC laws? Riiigght… I think what they article meant to say was at this time of year, they make a dog-and-pony show out of their enforcement hijinks.
Totally ILLEGAL against the constitution… some RSO’s should SUE as the pig department can NOT compel speech nor FORCE anyone not on paper to be LOCKED DOWN in their residence !! Its called imprisonment !!
So if all your lights have to be off and they knock on the door to do a compliance check couldn’t you not answer and use the excuse that you couldn’t find the door with the lights off?