Unfortunately there was a case not too long ago in south Florida where a registrant used his mommys car to elude police. If I remember correctly the DNA submitted to FDLE placed him as the perp and the pics in the registry helped to identify him. That being said calling it a useful tool is like stating that the specialty tool buried and forgotten in the toolbox that only works to remove a fuel line for a 92-94 Ford fuel filter is useful to a mechanic. 99.9999% of the time it does nothing and is worthless.

That bastard has made a career out of his son’s murder.

You really think he wants anything to do with “sex offenders” other than use them just like politicians for person gain – NO!

Totally correct – it is a “feel good” for the ignorant masses but the registry actually causes more sex crimes such as the most common which is being abused by someone the victim and/or their family knows. In other words NOT A STRANGER or NOT SOMEONE ON ANY Registry either.

So while the ignorant masses think that the authorities are watching all the perverts they can ignore everything else – this false sense of security allows those close to their child the opportunity to do what they want more easily.

No one wins – not the public nor any children. Certainly not those used as scapegoats on this stupid registry.

Well, these is actually one winner and that is politicians who exploit parent’s emotional weakness and manipulate it for their own gain – such as Lauren Book.

The registry is ineffective, period. It’s ineffective as to all people, whether dangerous or not. It’s not like a magnet that only works on metal.
There are dangerous people on the registry and there are dangerous people not on the registry – that’s not the point.

Donald Smith (who abducted, raped and killed Cherish Perrywinkle) was on the registry but the registry didn’t save Cherish. Educating her mom to not let Cherish go off with someone she just met, might have saved Cherish, but nobody thinks public awareness programs might work or required education for parents and children might help.

‘actual dangerous people are on the Registry. What is our response to that? Just ignore it and fight for them too?’

rpsabq raises some commonly asked questions.

I think our responses are:

How does the registry identify which people are actually dangerous?
If we know which registrants are actually dangerous, why do we believe a registration scheme would stop them?
We don’t fight for dangerous people, we fight for the constitution. And the constitution will stop working if we only allow it to protect people we’re comfortable with.

The overwhelming majority of people who forcibly rape small children, if they don’t receive life sentences at least receive sentences long enough to seriously hamper their virility and possibly their mobility. So sure, the point survives; but just barely.

The issue is simple.

Registries do nothing to even slightly hinder any future crimes. Anyone who is listed on a Registry (i.e. any PFR) will commit a crime in the future if he/she wants to. Listing a person on a Registry is useless. If that person is my neighbor I have no idea if that person is more or less dangerous than any other neighbor. I can’t truly protect my family without treating all of the people the same. This country has seen literally millions of examples of that. You can ostracize and avoid every single PFR and you haven’t protected anyone unless you are doing the same to everyone you know.

And completely overlooked by the naive people who live in fantasyland and support Registries – the Registries make almost everyone more dangerous. I’m certain that if you list a person who is the “worst of the worst” that you make that person a magnitude more dangerous than if you did not list the person. I know for a fact that being listed on the Registries has caused a person to murder people, including innocent children.

I think the simple fact is that Registries just make people feel good. It doesn’t matter much that they don’t work and increase crime. The a**holes of Amerika just want it.