That is VERY TRUE – Many people advocate against the registry in NY. Thank you for acknowledging that.

There are A LOT OF very fine advocates in NY. I can name a few who do more fore the registrant community than entire state affiliates combined, and some are not even registrants or related to any!

Derek Logue – We do have activists in NY. Restorative Action Alliance is a grassroots ALL volunteer organization. We are the taking actions that we are able to take with the resources and people we have and making sure that people who are advocating are NOT in danger of being harmed. Do you live or work in New York? Are you aware of what’s happening here on the ground outside of what you see on the news? New York is a LARGE state. Tearing other advocates down calling them “placeholders” when they don’t operate in the manner that you do is a counterproductive practice that needs to stop if you want to chat give me a call.

It’s not Ex-Post-Facto…It’s only people on probation!

Out of all the issues with this report, it is the choice of pictures in the article that were the worst. A man getting arrested, an ankle monitor, and a menacing-looking guy in a ski mask, and probably worse of all, a kid in a prison costume with a (fake) bloody lip?

The pics alone make this Shiitake-worthy.

You misread the report.

and this study published by the National Institute of Health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19581428/

Hopefully the email doesn’t get thrown away by some digruntled junior staffer.

Not to mention , this is ex-post facto illegal and I’m really sick of the cop out the cops use saying this is way under reported. If it’s under reported that means nobody knows , right? So how is it that nobody knows but they know more than anyone else. So all there really saying is they think they are smarter than anyone else which makes them better than anyone else. What arrogance!!! So their opinions are better than any known facts. That is why so many innocent people get imprisoned and killed by cops because they think they know more than the law. The cops are the ones needing to go to head shrinking classes for the benefit of everyone.

There is a very fine line between a useful tool for violence prevention and a PR stunt/public shaming session. In this case the tool is being used forcefully & in the wrong context, touted as a “public safety” tool. Shame on them.