With the ability to search your area for sex offenders online, how has your community changed? What impact have Sex Offenders had on your communities?
2007-12-23 07:06:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Stewie Griffin is right. The laws that require registration cover an incredibly wide area and include offenses that are relatively minor (viewing child porn on the internet for example). The real threats tend to get lost in the long lists of registered persons and we waste resources monitoring harmless offenders.
2007-12-23 07:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by alex42z 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that so many people are required to register and the registry does not state what they did.
If a child abductor/rapist/murderer is on the block then it would be nice to be aware of it. I really don't care if some kid who got a ******** when he was 15 is living on my block.
I am not aware of the registry having any effect on my community; but, I don't have kids.
Other than commonsense things like having an escort program to walk women to their cars at night at the local JC. I don't think there is much of an effect.
2007-12-23 07:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by Citizen1984 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In truth, I haven't noticed alot of positive impact. I've seen the ability of people to look them up and commit acts of destruction and violence towards them, It might have been easier for officials to look them up and round up a more promising group of "usual suspects" if a crime of a certain nature happened in the neighborhood, but by and large, is it good that people freak out when they find out something they were whoafully ignorant about before ? it causes tention.
No, i'm not saying sticking your head in the sand is a great option and not going to claim in this case that ignorance is bliss.
I'm just saying that it might be a useful but limited tool, and although a necessity or improvement one over the old sketchy system, it probably adds more problems than it helps despite being needed.
2007-12-23 07:15:52 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have a sex offender that lives next door to me. I can't even let my son play in our own front yard. It's upsetting to say the least. How can this man that molested a little boy be allowed to live next door to a little boy. I understand that he has rights..but sometimes I wonder where my rights are.
2007-12-23 07:24:34 · answer #4 · answered by texasbelle_80 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've looked at sex offender registries online, they are worthless. Could care less about someone convicted of possessing child pornorgraphy, guy molesting his daughter is irrelevant. Consensual sex between a 22 year old and a 15 year old has no place.Predators who could molest your child are few and far between, but they get hidden in a big list and their crimes obscured in what they are convicted..
2007-12-23 07:22:45 · answer #5 · answered by Stewie Griffin 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sex Offenders shall burn in effigy!
2007-12-23 07:09:24 · answer #6 · answered by anaise 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't like this idea of sex offenders "living" anywhere.
child molesters, rapists, etc. should be shot in gonads, then left to bleed to death.
2007-12-23 07:19:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋