Correct False Reporting: WFTV should learn TRUE recidivism rates
Winter Springs Florida’s ABC Affiliate, WFTV, reported about a sexual assault yesterday. In that report they quoted Senator Linda Stewart as saying “The problem that we have with the [sex] offenders is that they are going to offend again.”
Really?!?! Perhaps Senator Stewart and WFTV need an education on actual recidivism rates. If anyone has a moment today, please reach out to them and share your comments here so that others can comment too.
https://www.wftv.com/station/about/
https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/s13
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I had provided her with a link last year to one of the articles posted on this site contradicting what she states. I told her to challenge her thinking by reading it.
Apparently she wasn’t up for that challenge… Sigh.
Thanks for posting this. When I saw the story yesterday on the news I about spit out my food I was eating. I knew I had to share this with everyone who did not see it. So No one can ever be rehabilitated ?
Stories like this is what gets our neighbors all fired up wanting to lynch us.
PS: Here is the Senator’s email for anybody who wants it.
[email protected]
Hello:
I emailed the TV station and the Senator with the following: (I changed the wording slightly for the senator)
Hello:
You recently reported on a story of a man arrested for sexual assault. You stated that sex offenders usually repeat their crimes. This is patently untrue.
According to numerous state-funded and university studies, as well as the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Crime Statistics, the actual rates of recidivism for those convicted of sex offenses is the lowest of any other type of crime (except for murder).
Only around 5% or sex offenders go on to re-offend compared to many other types of crime, whose re-offense rates remain around 50-75% recidivism.
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsorsp9yfu0514.pdf
Thank You
my email to the senator:
Recently seen a report on the news station where you made the statement that sex offenders will offend again. I would like where you received that information to state such a fact to make such a statement or is that statement not a fact and something you made up or did you make that statement because it is close to an election in less than a year?
Either way i think you did a disservice to the people you serve as clearly your statement is anything but the truth! and there are plenty of real sex offender reoffence rates that are facts published by the government as well as scholars on the subject.
If you would like to actually do something and protect children and adults you would get proactive about drunk driving as they have one of the highest recidivism conviction rates of all the criminals! god forbid any little Jane goes to soccer practice with little Lisa and little Lisa’s dad (a two time convicted drunk driver) drives them and is involved in an accident.
In closing, I believe that the reason politicians don’t get serious about protecting the public from drunk drivers is do to they themselves drink and drive or there loved one does!
I Pray to god little Lisa’s father or someone like him does not get in an accident and kill or injure anyone but that could help actually be prevented if there was an actual drunk driving public list where little Jane’s mommy and daddy could check to see that little Lisa’s dad is a convicted drunk driver (drunk driving should be a felony) . what is strange is should a person shot and injure someone they go to prison for a long time or even if they missed they just shot a gun at someone but yet a drunk driver kills someone they do very little time in prison if any. A vehicle with an impaired driver such as a drunk is a weapon and there should be laws in place to that fact. Our neighbors to the north Canada understand how dangerous drunk driving is with a true high recidivism rate, unlike sex offenders which you stated do!
This was a stranger in a park, and the legislation she is proposing would have kept him off the street.
We might keep this in mind when we tell her she is statistically wrong.
https://www.wftv.com/news/local/seminole-county/man-accused-exposing-himself-girl-winter-springs-facing-charges/CZTDQYSD7NAHBOI7RAGDOBBXCQ/?outputType=amp
All the more reason to stress the fact that Sos have the lowest recidivism rates. This man was/is an aberration.
We should be assessed individually.
There shouldn’t be any “assessing” at all. Once a person completes a legal sentence of incarceration and/or probation/parole, that’s it. All done. Nothing else is acceptable.
The $EX Offender Registries are nothing but a giant pile of excrement. They are clearly not needed or beneficial. That is trivial to prove. There is nothing legitimate about them. They are nothing but harassment by out-of-control Nanny Big Government and the emperor never had any clothes. They are all liars.