The Florida Sheriff’s Association is happy with the Halloween initiative
According to Tampa’s WTSP News “the Florida Sheriff’s Association is happy with the Halloween initiative to keep kids safe during trick or treating and related events.”
Why are they “happy” you ask?
You need to scroll to the bottom of the page to find out the real reason they are happy. According to the article, “Hours dedicated to this operation: 774 hours”
774 hours to “check” on persons required to register on Halloween when historically there has NEVER been an uptick of sexual assaults at an average rate of $28.50/hour, means the Sheriffs just wasted $22,059 (excluding overtime) essentially going trick-or-treating for pay, when they could have been out stopping actual crime.
I’d be happy too!
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In Pinellas, “law enforcement spent 774 hours determining that…everyone was following the law.
“There’s no association between Halloween and sexual violence, and that there’s no association between compliance with the registry and recidivism.”
Per Guy Hamilton-Smith, on Twitter. You should open an account there and follow him.
Guy is a must follow for anyone on twitter.
https://twitter.com/g_padraic?lang=en
I couldn’t help but think of all the LE resources being wasted with SO registry nonsense even though there are more serious issues at hand as seen in the press release below.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-chief-warns-of-mexican-super-labs
They are happy like some special needs people are when they are licking windows. No difference.
It’s much easier to steal taxpayer resources with “work” like this than it is to do actual work.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is a liar. He said, “The safety of our children is always top of mind for law enforcement throughout the state of Florida.” Of course that is a lie. If it were not, this “operation” never would have been considered.
Further, he implied that all Registered People (RPs) were checked. The article also said the “operation” “included physical checks on every sexual offender/predator”. I’m skeptical. The article said that 1,555 of 1,567 of the RPs in Pinellas County were “in compliance”. I read that to mean that the law enforcement criminals (LECs) met each of those 1,555 people at their homes. I don’t believe that.
If that were true, it would be very disappointing.
The question is – do people want these types of “operations” to end? Do we want “compliance checks” to stop? I’m not sure I do. I think it is great when LECs waste their time, money, and other resources. I also really, really hope that these operations very negatively affect the morale of every LEC. It should. Any of them with a brain should be embarrassed and humiliated. Any of them with a brain should understand how this kind of nonsense has destroyed their authority, respect, and ability to be effective. So in that sense, I love the waste of these “operations”. I hope it continues to be very, very difficult for law enforcement agencies to attract qualified, good, normal people to work there. They’ll continue to have the dysfunctional work environment that they’ve always had.
But on the moral, proper, American side – I don’t think these PR stunts should be allowed. But in order to stop them, RPs are going to have to have a spine, stand up, and refuse to allow them. I’ve said it 1,000 times – I don’t think RPs should allow LECs around their homes ever. So how will this nonsense continue in the future? Does everyone want LECs to continue to do PR stunts and brag about them in an attempt to extort more money from the clueless, gullible public?
Today, I’ll personally ensure that Registries are much worse than worthless and very damaging. Will you?
If they are happy about wasting time on registrants, does that also mean they are happy that they are not patrolling the streets looking for drunk drivers that ARE out there, potentially hitting children out trick or treating?
These statistics are from the Edgar Snyder & Associates law firm:
– 44% of national fatal crashes during Halloween weekends involved a driver or motorcyclist with a BAC of 0.08 or higher.
38% of fatal crashes that occurred on Halloween nights involved a driver or motorcyclist with a BAC of 0.08 or higher.
23% of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween night included a drunk driver.
And, according to the AAA:
– One-fourth of all pedestrian deaths ranging in age from 5-14 occurred in the four days leading up to Halloween (October 28-31) in 2017.
On Halloween night 2017, 89 people were fatally injured in a traffic crash, with 13 percent involving alcohol.
In 2017, more than half of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween occurred with the pedestrian outside of a marked crosswalk.
From 2013 – 2017, 158 people were killed in drunk-driving crashes on Halloween night
From 2013 – 2017, 22 percent of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween night involved a drunk driver.
During that period, 42 percent of all people killed in motor vehicle crashes on Halloween night were in crashes involving a drunk driver.
Now reading these statistics, one would believe that if drunk drivers are that dangerous around Halloween, then registered citizens must be far more dangerous. However, no matter how hard I try, and I have tried very hard, I cannot find a single source of anyone showing that a registered citizen has ever committed a crime against a child out trick or treating on Halloween.
So the sheriff departments waste 774 combined hours chasing a problem that has never existed, while drunk drivers are out running over people. And they are happy about this? Pathetic!
-The Real Witch Hunt
My own City of Apopka in Orange County has patrolled visits about every 4 months. They don’t visit on Halloween. Other than State and County they keep their own records of current RSOs.
Every jurisdiction has its own set of rules making compliance damn near impossible. With nearly 100,000 registered offenders in Florida and 17% homeless its also damn near impossible for Law Enforcement to supervise!
JEV True Confessions
I’d have a wall around my home for certain. I would not allow them to speak to me there. Well, I don’t allow them to speak to me anywhere ever.