The parents escorting their children should dress up as pedophiles, since it seems that they've replaced witches as the monster-behind-the-shadow.

Despite the fact children are more likely to be abused by someone they know, I can understand the desire for parents to want to know where sex offenders live. I just don't understand why we don't extend this to other crimes. Sex offenders recidivism rates are somewhere around 5-6%, but the overall statistic of prisoners released is more like 40%. So while I think it is great and all that you are aware of sex offenders in your neighborhood, I would like to know where the drug dealers, violent criminals, and car thieves live as well. Oh, wait, they "did their time." Pshhh.

Oh, I've got an app on my phone for that, so wherever I go I can find the nearest sex offender if I'm looking for a little one on one. It even shows a picture of them so I can see if they're cute. Warning: most aren't cute.

Sex Offender Search (for Android)

To be fair, I only came over to borrow a teen cup of sugar.

Teeny. I meant teeny.

/this seat?
//right here?

The Sex Offender Locator Application allows users to access addresses of medium- and high-risk offenders quickly and easily.

Are these like the Bush Administration Terror alerts?

"Whoa, don't go over there! That guy is an "orange" level sex offender. He's going to poke out our eyes and rape our skulls. This guy is only a "yellow". He'll probably just squeeze your genitals."

I am okay with all of this.

Lets have Facebook actually do something farking USEFUL other than keeping in touch with Great Aunt So-And-So and showcasing rampant narcissism.

I love how these stories always crop up around Halloween. Usually, they're stories about how some local lawmaker wants sex offenders to post their status on their front doors, or tries to organize a community party in lieu of trick-or-treating, so this one is at least new. Has there ever been a case of a trick-or-treater being molested? By someone the kid didn't know, I mean, deferring to thismomentinblackhistory's quite-correct statement.

Here's a cool search tool.

Link (new window)

/Cool but farking scary at the same time

thismomentinblackhistory: I would like to know where the drug dealers.......live as well.

This would save me a lot of leg work and awkward stares.

ModernLuddite: deadcrickets: CJHardin: Here's a cool search tool.

Link (new window)

/Cool but farking scary at the same time

I tried it but it doesn't seem accurate. None of the local GOP candidates showed up on it.

+1, would LOL again.

Now everyone is wondering why I'm busting out laughing in the restaurant by myself.

/Keyboard, gimme

Cythraul: The parents escorting their children should dress up as pedophiles, since it seems that they've replaced witches as the monster-behind-the-shadow.

I'm dressing as Herbert this year.

sandmanahoy: I understand your point.

I wasn't trolling. This issue does not affect me because I'm not a sex offender and I don't have children. It seems to me that while these laws are ostensibly portrayed as giving parent's the right to know where sex offenders live in neighborhoods as a result of Megan's Law, there is also a punitive element that is often denied. There is definitely a Scarlet Letter thread to this. I receive postcards in the mail when sex offenders move into a homeless shelter two blocks away, and I also have the option to look online or download an app.

I'm just curious why it hasn't gone further than sex offenders. 5% of sex offenders recommitting crimes is 5% too many -- keep the registry. I'm not arguing against it. But other offenders are some eight times likelier to offend again, people that have served time.

This is all public information. I could get online and pull up any prison record I wanted. I'm only saying that because I don't have children, my priorities are slightly different than those of parents, other than we both agree we want a safe community. So why shouldn't I know if someone who committed voluntary manslaughter 10 years ago moves in next door? Or someone who has been busted twice for breaking and entering in his neighborhood?

The reason I always hear is "you do the crime, you do the time," and then you have a chance to start over. But the irony is that the low-level sex offenders less likely to offend again and start over while the repeat offenders (violent criminals, thieves, physical abusers, meth dealers).

Yeah, I think a child molester is worse than a thief, but I'm not worried about the child molester.

DrWhy: You are so on the right track here, but you haven't gone far enough. All criminals should be prevented from living near places where they are likely to reoffend. For instance car thieves should not be allowed to live with 1000 yards of any cars and drug dealers should not be allowed to live or enter any municipalities that contain drug stores.

You do realize that by telling me it is useless to keep car thieves 1000 yards away from cars, it also applies to child rapists and a 9 year old's cock?

DrWhy: KingKauff: Cythraul: The parents escorting their children should dress up as pedophiles, since it seems that they've replaced witches as the monster-behind-the-shadow.

I'm dressing as Herbert this year.

I'll go even one better and dress up as a zombie sex offender.

Which GOP member will you be?

thismomentinblackhistory: You do realize that by telling me it is useless to keep car thieves 1000 yards away from cars, it also applies to child rapists and a 9 year old's cock?

So, I'm still cool around 9 year old girls?

KingKauff: thismomentinblackhistory: You do realize that by telling me it is useless to keep car thieves 1000 yards away from cars, it also applies to child rapists and a 9 year old's cock?

So, I'm still cool around 9 year old girls?

Kids are fat now. One more reason the death penalty should be applied to people that find them sexually attractive.

to alert residents of sexual offenders

Wait... that can't be... it's coming from inside the house!

What kind of parent let's their kids go trick-or-treating by themselves?

Back when I was a kid I was always followed around by one or both of my parents - any sex-offender's house that I may have rang the doorbell of wouldn't have had a chance to do anything.

Sex offender registries are pretty much useless unless you want to get out of a lease in an apartment. I sent the apartment manager a nasty letter and mentioned that I saw there was a sex offender registered there and threatened to make a big stink. I got a nice letter back telling me I wasn't bound by my lease anymore and could move out without any notice or penalties.

So I did - I pay about $200 more per month but I have about 3 times the space I did in that shiathole sex-offender place;.

thismomentinblackhistory: Despite the fact children are more likely to be abused by someone they know, I can understand the desire for parents to want to know where sex offenders live. I just don't understand why we don't extend this to other crimes. Sex offenders recidivism rates are somewhere around 5-6%, but the overall statistic of prisoners released is more like 40%. So while I think it is great and all that you are aware of sex offenders in your neighborhood, I would like to know where the drug dealers, violent criminals, and car thieves live as well. Oh, wait, they "did their time." Pshhh.

I wish there was a map of drug dealers.

DrWhy: thismomentinblackhistory: sandmanahoy: I understand your point.

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DrWhy: You are so on the right track here, but you haven't gone far enough. All criminals should be prevented from living near places where they are likely to reoffend. For instance car thieves should not be allowed to live with 1000 yards of any cars and drug dealers should not be allowed to live or enter any municipalities that contain drug stores.

You do realize that by telling me it is useless to keep car thieves 1000 yards away from cars, it also applies to child rapists and a 9 year old's cock?

I don't think I was trying to tell you what you think I was trying to tell you...
I didn't mean to imply that it was ineffective, but that some of the child offender post-release rules are so onerous as to essentially make the offenders unable to live any kind of normal life and support themselves. they might as well have just been put in jail for life. I think some of the rules are to the point of being cruel and unusual punishment. It would be kinder to the offender, and more effective, to simply pluck out their eyes and then let them live anywhere and do whatever they need to support themselves and live a good life as best they can without eyesight.

No easy solutions. Remember that story about the sex offenders all living underneath a bridge (new window) because they got zoned out of everywhere else? Apparently they were even putting "underneath such and such bridge" on their driver's licenses.

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You have to admit, Gary Glitter is kind of creepy even if you didn't know about his penchant for underaged girls.

CJHardin: Here's a cool search tool.

Link (new window)

/Cool but farking scary at the same time

Ehhhhh.......red dots every farking where.