With recidivism so low, why are we monitoring ALL sex offenders and painting them with the same brush?
This creates a situation where the PREDATORS may hide in the registry.
Politicians love this kind of situation because they can "appear" to be tough on crime. Prosecutors, (Remember Mike NiFong)?, they love to prosecute and get their notch in their belt.
To the media, Nancy Grace, Bill O'reilly, Keith Oberman and the like love the ratings. It's money in their pocket.
If politicians really cared about protecting society. They would not be writing laws that endanger our entire society. Evidence Based Research has been effectively been ignored by law makers. Votes are more important.
So, let me get this straight. "We have banished them from our cities and towns, from their jobs and have made life so miserable that many abscond because they have been legislated out of homes and jobs. They are compelled to flee rather than be treated as sub-human. Enough is enough.
Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape,
and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.
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Evaluating California's Sex Offender Laws
A very revealing interview Author of Media Mythmakers
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March 27, 2010 at 6:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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Arrest in Girl’s Murder Highlights Sex Offender Myth - http://shar.es/mp76W
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March 26, 2010 at 9:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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buchanan, The only way we are going to have effective laws, is to fight for them.
The RESEARCH is on our side. But fight we must!
March 26, 2010 at 8:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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rightin55, We need to exercise that right as often as we can. Even these sex offender laws are infringing upon it.
If a constitutional right is denied one (1), it is denied to all.
March 26, 2010 at 6:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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With recidivism so low, why are we monitoring ALL sex offenders and painting them with the same brush?
This creates a situation where the PREDATORS may hide in the registry.
Politicians love this kind of situation because they can "appear" to be tough on crime. Prosecutors, (Remember Mike NiFong)?, they love to prosecute and get their notch in their belt.
To the media, Nancy Grace, Bill O'reilly, Keith Oberman and the like love the ratings. It's money in their pocket.
If politicians really cared about protecting society. They would not be writing laws that endanger our entire society. Evidence Based Research has been effectively been ignored by law makers. Votes are more important.
March 25, 2010 at 10:12 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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Put Mary back on
March 25, 2010 at 10:03 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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So, let me get this straight. "We have banished them from our cities and towns, from their jobs and have made life so miserable that many abscond because they have been legislated out of homes and jobs. They are compelled to flee rather than be treated as sub-human. Enough is enough.
March 25, 2010 at 9:47 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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California has a HUGE amount of registered sex offenders. Punishing all for the acts of one individual does not make sense.
John Gardner alone should be punished. If found guilty, he and he alone should suffer the consequences of this murder.
That's supposed to be the American Justice system.
March 25, 2010 at 9:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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That is a myth!
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/rsorp...
Highlights include the following:
Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%),
burglars (74.0%),
larcenists (74.6%),
motor vehicle thieves (78.8%),
those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape,
and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.
March 25, 2010 at 9:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )