Brandon
The ENTIRE time. All that fuss is actually one of many things that got me off probation 40% way through it. It was not the probation officer I had an issue with, she was stern but fair. It was the cops that were bored and “Just happen” to always be on my street? Was a dead end street in the middle of a neighborhood. Zero crime ever on that street when I lived there for 4 years. Pure 100%, genuine harassment.

CherokeeJack

Was that like the entire time you were on probation. I could see maybe the first or second week. They just wanted to verify if you weren’t lying about the color of your shirts, shorts, shocks, underwear, and towels.

Brandon
When I was on probation, it was living Hell. The probation officer would come by randomly 2 to 3 times a week. If I wasn’t home she would ask where I was and if I said “Grocery store” I damn well better have a receipt showing just that with a time stamp.

Then the sheriff’s office would come by, the local police department would come by, and even once, the FDLE came by. All of them wanted to come inside and I told all of them “As former law enforcement and a graduate from the Criminal Justice institute, I decline unless you have a search warrant. Their answers was always “If you have nothing to hide what’s the issue”? I replied “Let me come over to your house and dig through your personal items, your underwear drawer etc and see how violated you would feel”.

When I lived in Florida the local pd would check on me every month and one time I wasn’t home, which I got a call from an unlisted number. On one hand they say it’s not punishment, but if you aren’t home 24/7/365 you’ll get a lecture. I’m 41 years old, not 41 months. Unlike the government I can take care of myself.

BWJ…

Just More ‘Printed Toilet Paper’ in the Sourced Article Above!

Empirical Data is Missing in This Piece of A Grocery Store Tabloid Article!

I’ve not been an advocate of defunding police. However, police reform is a different subject entirely. If anything, this report argues for a more targeted approach focusing on the most dangerous former felons rather than wasting resources tailing the other 95%. Doing that might very well have prevented the rape mentioned in the article. I don’t understand why legislators and law enforcement are so resistant to fact-based rational analyses.

Veritas.

BWJ

So we did something to get us arrested that had nothing at all to do with those judgmental folks. But they, if they had the chance, would kill us and hope to be called heroes. So whatever we did (That wasn’t murder) is worse than killing someone?

That brings to mind this scripture from the Bible:

Matthew 7:1-5
“Judge not, lest you be judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me remove the speck from your eye”; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Will Allen

Here is my thought. What kind of person signs on to be a cop to do sex offender compliances? I mean when I got hired, I wanted to help people and make the community a safer sure. But even when I came in contact with a bad guy, unlike a lot of cops who call people scum bags, I always used sir or Ma’am (Sometimes you could not tell either way depending on the part of town you patrolled LOL)
My point is, that is NOT fighting crime, that is being a baby sitter. I also never had the desire to become a probation officer. As a cop, I felt the citizens who paid my salary were my bosses and always tried my best to learn something new and get to know the people on the streets I was going to spend my career around.

When I got promoted to detective, I really lost interest in police work. It was quite boring after that.

Jed

The officer who checks on me use to come 4 times a year. Since the panda-demic, at one point it was 14 months between checks as long as I had registered when I was supposed to.