Are Sheriff Grady Judd’s sting operations effective in reducing sex crimes in Polk County?

Polk County has announced that over two dozen arrests were made in an undercover sting operation.  Detectives posed as children on social media platforms and online dating sites. Could there be a better way to reduce the number of future sex crimes that would be more cost effective and not destroy so many people’s lives? According to a National Institute

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Did the California Department of Corrections deliberately place a serial killer in with an inmate who had committed a sex offense?

In a central Californian prison, a convicted serial killer was placed in a cell with an inmate who had sexually assaulted a child. The serial killer pled guilty to killing five men and injuring seven others.  Before that, he killed his aunt and uncle and then began attacking people in two cities by bludgeoning his victims with bolt cutters and

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What is usually the first thing that law enforcement does in looking for a missing child? Visit people forced to be on the registry.

A child has gone missing in Hernando County, Florida, after the mother fell asleep. Sheriff Nienhuis said that his deputies visited “sex offenders” in the area and did not find any sign of the child.  Law enforcement never does, but for some reason they feel this makes their efforts look good in the eye of the public. This Sheriff Nienhuis

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Mr. Meade, please help Florida’s two excluded groups regain their voting rights, too.

While we are called the United States of America, when it comes to the voting rights of people who have been incarcerated, we are anything but united. Florida Governor DeSantis, along with funding from the legislature, created Florida’s new Office of Election Crimes and Integrity, while 21 other states automatically restore voting rights after release from prison. Washington state passed

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Why Do We Treat Sex Crimes Differently Than Other Violent Crimes?

According to thecrimereport.org, Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado, asks readers to take a second look at how we treat sex crimes. Gruber feels that “treating sex crimes differently than other crimes is not natural or neutral but rather has a political history that should be examined.” “I’m kind of saying to people, you think that

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