Comments on: Patch is hard at work putting out their registry maps

By: Maestro

Maestro — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:40:45 +0000

Look how that registry is really helping to deter people from committing sexual crimes. Or maybe she just didn’t know there was a registry;
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-teacher-jailed-allegedly-having-sexual-relationship-14-year-old-2-months-1635515

By: TS

TS — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:31:53 +0000

In reply to Ed Christy.

@Ed C

I want to feel safe with LEOs at all times, all the while knowing a small percentage of them are a problem that ruin the name of the whole bunch (and more so in some localities). Until they understand the other side of the danger thinking about PFRs (and LEOs), they will always spout the company line to protect their jobs. They just want their doughnut and to eat it too.

Props to you for trying to reach this Fed on this topic.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:16:03 +0000

Patch should change tactics with articles with your kid could be the next red dot. Wonder what would happen if readers read that and had a deer in the headlights moment.

By: Derek Logue of OnceFallen.com

Derek Logue of OnceFallen.com — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:46:01 +0000

Back in 2017, Patch did publish a statement by NARSOL. But the Patch countered with a fear mongering OpEd that relied heavily on emotional appeals. They brought up the over 40 year old murder of Lisa French, leaving out the fact the killer would not have been on any registry had it existed back then. It also relied on the underreporting myth.

The Patch is not interested in the facts because facts do not sell ad space.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 19:06:18 +0000

In reply to CherokeeJack. CherokeeJack It wasn’t me I was in school at the time and have my yearbook as proof. Besides why break windows when we used silly string, eggs, and toilet paper. Heck I would of cleaned it up the next day. I was young once but I wasn’t a jerk either.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:58:41 +0000

A list won’t stop someone from committing any kind of crime. How’s a list isn’t going stop anyone that has intent, it’s a feel good useless way to make communities less safe.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 16:35:44 +0000

In reply to Ben.

Ben

Or if you are at home, a good security camera can be the difference to exonerate you from any false accusations. We have cameras on all 4 corners of our property.

They also helped law enforcement when kids denied throwing rocks at our house. We showed the cops the video of them throwing the rocks. I said I didn’t want the boys charged since there was not real damage but to let them know they won’t get a break if it happens again. I never saw them on my street again.

By: AL in Jax

AL in Jax — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 13:54:35 +0000

In reply to Ben. Every year at Holloween we shut down the house.. the wife and I go to a movie or out to dinner or someplace where I have a receipt for where I was and I am not home. Gives us a great reason for a date night. And if we need to have a Holloween party situation... we ask the host in advance of sharing the details to make it the weekend before Holloween.. as to not interfere. It always works and never an issue. Stay safe.

By: Ed C

Ed C — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 12:36:16 +0000

In reply to Jacob.

You are right Jacob, words and framing do matter, and differ for pre-registry and post-registry crimes.

When a sex crime occurs today, the perpetrator is either on the registry or not. If on the registry, my response is that the registry obviously does not prevent nor even reduce crime. If not on the registry it supports the fact that most sex crimes are committed by unregistered persons. Either way, the two primary knee-jerk responses to a sex crime and the registry can be blunted.

Veritas.

By: obvious answers

obvious answers — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 08:53:42 +0000

The huge problem with trying to segregate any large segment of society because of actions of any one person is that every segment of every society will always have ONE horrible person that does one horrible deed.. There will always be 1 Christian, 1 atheist, 1 white, 1 black, 1 brown, 1 muslim,1 hetrosexual, 1 transexual,1 doctor,1 pastor,1 pilot, 1 cop, 1 anything /everything,something,or nothing that does something society finds deplorable.. Always and in every single segment and walk of life we will finds someone that has done or will do soemthing horrible..we can not forever live in fear and brand every single segment of society for fear of the one person that eventually will exist and for which the branding will not matter because they will commit the attrocity anyways.. Elizabeth Smart is a perfect example.. Her captor was a lunatic on the registry/on parole, and in the public eye and none of that stopped him.. Perhaps if a little more logic was applied and a little less sterotyping that crime would have either never happened or been caught much sooner. registrys dont work ..logic does.