Reason: Florida Cops Re-Arrest 26 Sex Offenders in ‘Operation Karma.’ Their Crime? Not Updating Their Car Info.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Department in Florida is touting its successful completion of “Operation Karma,” a three-day sting in which cops arrested 26 registered sex offenders for violating various legal obligations imposed on them.
“They are apparently up to no good and we are going to hold them accountable,” Sheriff Grady Judd promises The Miami Herald.
But there is no evidence that any of the arrested people were a danger to anyone. They were not re-arrested for approaching children, or committing sex acts. In most cases, they were arrested for failing to register their vehicles with the government. This is understandable: sex offenders in Florida are required to provide the government with up-to-date information regarding their name, age, sex, height, weight, tattoos, hair color, address, email address, telephone number, social media accounts, employment information, and vehicle information. It’s probably fairly easy for a sex offender to forget to constantly re-supply necessary information.
But it’s absurd to suggest that these un-registered cars posed some kind of danger to the community. And yet The Miami Herald happily entertained this fantasy, allowing Grady and his office to essentially take a victory lap in the pages of the newspaper. The Herald also printed the mugshots of all the offenders, listed their names, and provided not only the reason for their re-arrests but information on their initial arrests. In practice, this means that many of these offenders—who range in age from 57 all the way down to 19—are being shamed for crimes they committed years and decades ago.
A bunch of mugshots of middle-aged men convicted of sex offenses against minors makes for a frightening image. But I did the math, and most of these people were in their 20s, or teens themselves, when they were first convicted.
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Highlands County registrants nearly all abstained from sexual recidivism, operation finds:
https://www.fox13news.com/news/more-than-two-dozen-registered-sex-offenders-arrested-for-improper-online-activity-in-highlands-county.amp
“This is a big deal” (puh-leeze):
https://www.deseret.com/platform/amp/utah/2020/8/18/21374339/this-is-a-big-deal-federal-local-police-track-down-sex-offenders
Law enforcement criminals (LECs) are so pathetic. U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber is an idiot. He said, “This extensive, expensive operation brings into focus how ludicrous the demands and chants of the activists are. This type of operation shows how ridiculous the demands are to defund the police, to defund law enforcement.”
LOL, this type of operation shows exactly why it is extremely important to defund police and shrink out-of-control big government in every way possible.
One thing we know for sure is that LECs will immediately start whining “sex offender”, “sex offender”, the second that someone starts threatening their overpaid big government job.
The last sentence of the article says, “The U.S. Marshals’ Sex Offender Unit helped pay for the overtime shifts for local agencies to conduct the operation.” Overtime. Of course. Why would we expect incompetent big government criminals planning an operation MONTHS in advance to actually allocate the appropriate resources correctly so that they would not “have to” pay overtime? Why would we ever expect out-of-control, idiotic big government, that runs do-nothing, make-jobs Registries, to ever be responsible stewards of our money or to responsibly and efficiently run a business? I mean, that’s something a high schooler could do. But why would LECs when they can fleece $$$$$?
If you’ve ever looked at the budgets of LECs, you’ll find that the criminals pad their salaries, which are already too high, with all kinds of other compensation, including “overtime”. They will fleece every dollar that they can. That is why it is extremely important to join local groups where you live and control their budgets. The people at the top are ALWAYS overpaid. Always. They’ll whine about how dangerous their jobs are but they actually aren’t that dangerous. Especially paper pushing Registry harassers. And if they are too dangerous for them, they need to get a different job and let someone else do theirs. The LECs need to compete in the free enterprise job market. There are plenty of people who are a lot more competent than they are who will do their jobs for less.
All moral Americans are at war with Registry Supporters/Terrorists. Defund them all.
They are handing out felonies like traffic citations. It’s the most unconstitutional laws since Jim Crowe. Bordering on, if not if, a blatant human rights violation.