MI: Sex offender registry months out-of-date, but little action from lawmakers… so what?
A local Michigan news paper ran this story yesterday, which spoke about the state of Michigan’s sex offender registry and how out of date and inaccurate it is.
Essentially, since U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland declared parts of the State’s registry unconstitutional, Michigan has not been enforcing it. That means information on 44,000 people on their list has not been updated in months. Old information still appears online, new information has not been added. And things appear to be in limbo until their legislature can pass a law that will comply with the constitution. That’s something they have been working on for a long time with no resolution in sight. In the meantime, the people of Michigan are effectively without the registry.
The article talks about how terrible it is for people in Michigan to not have this tool, but don’t you think the real story should be what’s happened since? Have the instances of sexual assault skyrocketed? Have people on the registry used this as a hall pass to go out and commit crime? Have children started getting snatched off the sidewalks? Isn’t that the important information we should be looking at?
A few years back, when FAC’s president served on a task force in Palm Beach County, they were successful in rolling back the county residency restrictions to the state’s 1000 feet. And guess what happened? Nothing! Cutting the exclusion zone in half didn’t result in sex crimes doubling. In fact, in the years since, there’s been no remarkable change whatsoever.
Don’t you think, with all this ranting about the Michigan registry being out of date, the journalist should have investigated whether it’s had any impact? Isn’t that an essential part of the story?
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“As a mom or dad, you’re gonna wanna know those things.”
Just because you “want” to know, doesn’t mean you reserve the “right” to know!
Selfish idiots.
They obviously have no right to know. If they did, then I’d know about my new neighbor that shot his last neighbor. Or broke into his last neighbor’s home in the middle of the night to rob them and ended up “having” to beat the family nearly to death. Or the one who got drunk, drove home one afternoon, and “accidentally” ran over her neighbor’s child in her own yard and murdered her. Or got mad that his neighbor’s kid cut through his yard so he beat his face in with a shovel and permanently handicapped him. They have no right to know.
And as a dad, what I want is for those irresponsible moms and dads who “wanna know those things” to mind their own f’ing business for once and stop harassing other families. Big government isn’t providing me with a dossier on them. They don’t deserve one on me.
The media hates facts. They love click bait. No one wants to read about how the list of bad people really don’t do anything to protect them from sexual Violence. It’s a dog and pony show used for political gain. Always has been and always will be.
Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if the number of sexual abuse crimes committed by those on the registry were actually reduced during this time of registration suspension?
Nothing is happening with regard to increased crime because it was never about crime in the first place, it is and always will be about banishment from the community that does not want you living near them.
Someone in Michigan should look at the stats and see what the change is? Is there an increase? Doesn’t the FBI keep stats on this? Has this been in limbo long enough for data to be gathered. If the MI legislature does not act ….is this not a big enough issue or important enough. Advocate cutting off their Federal $ and see if they make it a priority.
Politicians do what benefits them. They are risk averse and if it does not benefit them to do something, they won’t. Bottom line, at the risk of loosing Federal $, what benefits them personally, loosing federal dollars or loosing their elected position.
Doing nothing, keeps the dollars coming in and not one of them has to risk their most honorable (my a**) job by making a decision that may be constitutionally illegal or perceived as soft on crime. Call for de-funding the Michigan SO registry. If its illegal and as we know, ineffective and unnecessary, its time to cut the fat from the fathead politicians. Austerity programs have a way of clearing the head.
MSM doesn’t care about relevance. If it bleeds it leads. “Dirty Laundry” will always be the perfect song to describe journalism for the past 40 years.