Man found guilty of killing 2 sex offenders
In a case of pretty distasteful reporting, Louisiana News Station WKRC announced that a man who killed 2 men because they were on the registry was convicted. Their story, which can be read here spends one sentence announcing the conviction, but then goes right into the past crimes of the victims.
Why shame the victims?
If you have a moment, post something to the comments section, which already has a couple of equally distasteful comments building.
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To answer the comments “Why don’t they or they should just pull down the registry” What occurred is the registry’s sole true purpose all along.
Surely you didn’t believe the official claim that the sex offender registry exists purely to protect the public, did you? If public safety were genuinely the goal—if the system were designed to warn communities about the most dangerous predators—then why is there no equivalent public registry for drug dealers who flood streets with lethal opioids, murderers who take innocent lives, arsonists who burn homes and schools, or other violent offenders whose crimes routinely kill, maim, addict, and traumatize children?
The absence of those registries is telling. Law enforcement isn’t incompetent or lazy enough to overlook an obviously effective tool. Police, prosecutors, and policymakers know exactly how registries function in practice. If broad public listing actually prevented crime and saved investigative resources, we would have registries for every serious offense—domestic batterers, gang members, drunk drivers, fentanyl traffickers, you name it.
But we don’t. Only one category of offender is singled out for lifelong public branding and extrajudicial punishment.
That stark inconsistency exposes the registry for what it has always been: not a shield for society, but a deliberate outlet for society’s rage—a state-sanctioned scapegoat that distracts, divides, and quietly serves power by giving the public an acceptable target to hate. The real purpose isn’t protection. It never was.
What you wrote is what I have believed all long.
Why do critics relentlessly scrutinize the past convictions of deceased victims on the sex offender registry, while barely mentioning the perpetrator’s heinous crimes? This pattern reveals the unspoken truth now being said aloud: the registry was never truly about public safety—it has always functioned as a de facto hunting license for vigilantes.
The courts know this. Congress knows this. The executive branch knows this. And it operates exactly as designed.
At its core, the registry is a punitive mechanism crafted to channel public outrage toward a vulnerable, unarmed group that is systematically denied the right to defend itself. It serves as a modern-day bread and circus: distract and unify the population against an easy target, thereby shielding the government from the people’s broader anger and frustration.
This deflection works brilliantly. By handing the masses someone they can collectively despise and attack without consequence, those in power buy themselves insulation from legitimate scrutiny and rage. It’s the same ancient tactic, repackaged for today—give the crowd a scapegoat, and the real issues fade into the background.
I was going to send WKRC a short note about their yellow journalism…
A better headline would have been: MAN FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING TWO MEN.
However WKRC is in Cincinnati, Ohio
LE could easily prevent this by taking down the registry. No, they wait until something like this happens then prosecute the murderer. Another example of LE being reactive and not proactive.
No end
Law enforcement has no power to take down the registry. The law makers I am pretty sure are who can do that, other than a supreme court judge.
LE as in all of them, from legislatures on down.
Well either way, most of us say “We will believe it when we see it” concerning being released from the registry. I do not understand why some states have a good path off, and others like Florida could care less if you rot in the ground. Wait, I am wrong, then they would lose those registry funds, so we need to stay alive right?
There is no mercy or compassion for those with our charges. And by posting our names, photos and addresses, it puts us in danger, and not just us, but our families as well.
Peter
Although have not been attacked (At least not physically) but have had my tires slit, windows shot out, kids throwing rocks at my house (That one law enforcement was awesome and put the fear of God into those kids), have had dog poop thrown at the house, and too much more to even list.
And that’s another reason why the SOR shouldn’t be made available to the public. This isn’t the first time and it definitely won’t be the last time we see something like this happen.