According to this article, a Michigan law enforcement officer said the public should be aware information on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry might not be up to date following an April U.S. District Court interim order barring officials from enforcing the sex offender registration act. “Basing something off of that website would be a mistake,” he said. “Concerned parents should teach children age-appropriate safety.”
So we learned that Michigan’s registry is inaccurate because it’s not being enforced… that begs a few questions:
- Have the instances of child sexual abuse by people with former convictions spiked since the decision in Does v. Snyder?
- If basing information off an inaccurate website would be “a mistake”, should Florida have the same warning, since there are 74 thousand people on their list with fewer than half actually in the community?
- If teaching children age-appropriate safety is an effective way to reduce sexual assault, why are resources not applied in that direction instead of inaccurate registries?
This thing about lifetime scaring is BS, promulgated to keep LEO’s and counselors in business.
There was some study from around 2003 that showed that about 1/3 of info on a certain state’s registry (Illinois IIRC) was inaccurate.
IDK if the info has become any more accurate since.
Here is my 2 cents’ worth on the registry:
The mantra of the victim advocacy groups, along with the lame-stream media has been as follows: “When a child is sexually abused, he or she is scarred for life. The same is said for women who are victims of rape, but the most highly emotionally-charged hot button issue is the sexual abuse of children. Why should the abuser “ONLY” HAVE TO SERVE “A FEW SHORT YEARS” in prison AND THEN BE ABLE TO GO ON WITH HIS LIFE LIKE NOTHING EVER HAPPENED when the victim has to live with what was done to them for a lifetime?” Enter the registry. This makes sure the abusers never finish paying for their crime. The registry ensures that PFRs never have another second of anything that feels even remotely like a normal, peaceful, fulfilling, enjoyable life. It is exactly the “eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth” retribution the victim advocacy groups and the public rabidly salivate and foam at the mouth for.
There are a small number of individuals who are dangerous enough to probably list them on a registry and consider it a public safety effort. But if said individuals were truly that dangerous, why are they on the streets? Is it possible that the almighty prosecutor did not have enough actual evidence to convict them of the crime they were accused of and in turn had to cut a deal? So since the courts have become a win/lose system you get stuff like the registry. People won’t risk fighting a case when threatened with 20 plus years prison so in turn they take a 2 year deal and then get stuck on the registry. Then here comes the real crime. The guy who urinated in public get placed beside the guy who drug a woman in the bushes and commited a violent assault. The state does very little if nothing to distinguish between the two on the registry. Therefore 97% of the registrants pay a horrible price for what 3% of the people who commited these crimes have done. The only thing the separates a person like me who was 16 at the time of alleged offence and true violent predator in the state of Floriduh… is a foward slash at the top of the website. So in my opinion the whole dumpster fire of whats know as the (Sexoffender/Predator) registery is inaccurate on almost every level.
Umm, for harassment and to make money. Law enforcement wants every “law” possible that can give them more jobs and money.
The victim exploitation industry loves the grift too, of course. How much does Lauren Book/Crook make every year from it? They aren’t going to give up that $$$$$.
We have to be careful not to ask law enforcement officials embarrassing questions as it might make them cry and feel bad about themselves. Even an inaccurate registry is job security for them and they want to at least feel they are productive members of society.
Even if it was accurate, why have it? We already know it isn’t an effective public safety tool.
Our government has never been accused of using logic and common sense. Particularly in the money making paradigm of American capitalistic law making.
Because than they wouldn’t have their feel-good civil punishment laws to fall back on for elections purposes.
⭐⭐⭐ “If teaching children age-appropriate safety is an effective way to reduce sexual assault, why are resources not applied in that direction instead of inaccurate registries?” ⭐⭐⭐ I Absolutely, 100% Agree!! 👍 The Registries are punishment and only do harm! They protect no one! They prevent nothing! 😠
IMHO there needs to be studies on a state by state basis of how COVID and in-person registration being suspended impacted the number of offenses of known SO’s.
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest there was no change.