Ron Book, ‘Average homeless person lives 13 to 17 years fewer’
In an article on South Florida’s CBS4 News on vaccinating the homeless, Miami-Dade Homeless Trust Chair Ron Book made an interesting statement. “The average homeless person lives 13 to 17 fewer years than either you or I will live,” he said. 17 years is a lot of years. That’s more than 20% of the average lifespan in the US.
It got me thinking… If there are actual statistics to back up that statement, and we know there are studies to demonstrate that Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORRs) lead to homelessness, we have a causal connection between SORRs and a pretty significant lower life expectancy.
The government has been arguing for years that Florida Statute 775.215 (Residency restriction for persons convicted of certain sex offenses) as well as the myriad of County and local SORRs are not “punishment”. The primary rebuttal has been that SORRs are tantamount to common law banishment, which has historically been considered punishment. In many states that argument has prevailed, but no such luck in Florida.
But would being legislated into a consequence resulting in a reduced life expectancy constitute punishment? Untimely death is a “pain or loss”, isn’t it? Even prisoners (who are unquestionably being punished) have safeguards to protect against “non-punishments” that harm them. For example, when it comes to scientific research involving the use of inmates, 45 CFR §46.306 states that the research can involve “no more than minimal risk and no more than inconvenience to the subjects;”
… sure walks and quacks like a duck, huh?
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If Ron Book indeed believes this to be true, and he knows he is responsible for hundreds of homeless registrants in Miami, then he is liable for their decline in health due to gross negligence. Ron and his Trauma Queen daughter truly are monsters.
It sickens me knowing the Book Crime Family likely got their COVID shots while they watch Registered Persons die. Yet they keep getting away with it and no one holds them accountable.
Derek
Are you familiar with the phrase “Friends in high places”?
Or it is “Not what you know, but WHO you know” that counts?
The idea comes to mind that the Book family is “Connected” if you know what I mean. That is why (I am sure you already know this) when you or I get pulled over for a DUI, we go to jail. If the son of the police chief does the same thing, they sweep it under the rug, then burn and bury the rug.
My comparison is not that different than what the 1930s crime mobs use to do. They can make people and things “Go away”.
The Books and Barney Bishop are both lobbyists with big mouths and they know each other, and both have said outlandish things– Barney wants us in a room with victim’s families with scissors so we can be stabbed, while Ron Book wants to waterboard us.
Society seems it fit to allow these scumbags to say such terrible things yet we aren’t allowed to defend ourselves. I can’t tell you how many times I hear people telling me and others to show them respect and be nice to them. They dont have the same civility or decency.
My response to the Books and Bishop is a simple two word answer. First word starts with F and rhymes with duck. Second word is opposite of “on”.
We have again and again listed 100’s of requirements or restrictions that we have to follow. EVERYONE in the World from law enforcement, citizens, judges all know regardless if you call it punitive or punishment, that is exactly what it is.
It is one thing to have a mug shot public forever like almost all former offenders do. But none of them have to report again and again and again for life to update their addresses, emails, work places and too many other exhausting things to waste my time typing.
The constitution might as well be burned. The bill of rights might as well be buried. Illegal immigrants seem to have more rights than those on the registry.
“Illegal immigrants seem to have more rights than those on the registry.”
Ironically, they actually do. After 5 years, they can apply for citizenship and their stigma is somewhat diminished while we’re still denied hope with nothing to look forwards to. They’re not reverse engineered to be the boogeyman the way WE ARE. They’re just a sideshow around election time, but we’re the main attraction year-round.
Some illegal immigrants would accept registration status in exchange for citizenship.
It’s absurd to imagine that such a swap would be available. But we won’t win this battle by throwing other unpopular groups under the bus. I have not walked in the shoes of an illegal immigrant, and do not wish to.
As Guy Hamilton-Smith put it, the two populations that seem entirely out of reach of the Constitution and its protections, are illegal immigrants and registered sex offenders.
Unfortunately, this problem is not going away any time soon.
The Washington County Commission (Chipley, FL) passed a new ordinance yesterday (Feb 18), increasing the distance for how far a registrant needs to live from 1,000 feet to 2,500 feet from a school, playground, park or other places where children regularly gather. Current registrants will be grandfathered in.
“Jackson and Calhoun counties have a similar ordinance. Washington County Sheriff, Kevin Crews, said their ordinances may have impacted the SO numbers in their county. ‘What’s happened to us, has actually pushed some of those people out of counties that they would have probably, normally, lived in before they’re pushing them into our country,’ Crews said.”
FAC cannot take on all of these legal challenges, but I hope the day comes when Florida gets a Janice Bellucci to start taking down one county at a time.l
Nothing against Janice but:
FloriDUH is a different political battleground than California. Liberal states are a little easier to rein in.
Janice has lost a few fights too. IML, for example. And the residency law issue was decided years ago so when Janice sues a city for their residency restriction ordinance, she’s simply getting them to remove the language from their municipal codes, but they aren’t being enforced because it was already declared unconstitutional.
Not knocking her, but too many folks in this movement lift her up on a pedestal. I’m more of a realist. It is a far tougher fight in the land of ‘Duh, so the fact I have a victory there at all is shocking.
Also, I think it is laziness when folks sit around waiting for some Messiah to swoop in and save us. We should all be doing our part. I do what I can even from podunk Nebraska. What’s everyone else’s excuse?
Next legislative meeting, I want to hear that a room full of Anti-Registry activists attended and testified. Stop waiting for a Janice to drop into your laps. The courts down there aren’t that helpful anyways.
There are a LOT of people in FAC doing a LOT of things behind the scenes that most people have no idea are happening.
In our monthly calls, I get a brief glimpse of what a small number of board members and others are doing behind the scenes and am always amazed.
Derek:
Thank you! I have said it here before. You cannot compare California and Florida. Completely two different political and social animals. Apples and Oranges. We have amazing and capable attorneys here that have accomplished the impossible at times,(including my own, who had my probation terminated successfully even against impossible odds) but Florida will not budge an inch when it comes to residency restrictions and the registry. If the registry and residency restrictions ceases to exist one day, Florida will be the last state to do so. Nothing against Janice either and she has done amazingly in California, but you can have a dream team of 10 Janice’s taking on Florida and she will lose even before she steps into the courts. It is by far one of the most corrupted, if not, the most corrupted state in the entire union at all levels of government. She can try and I will be there rooting for her of course, but I’m a realist as well.
AC
Florida has a history of bigotry and discrimintion. The Confederacy was strong here as well as the clan. A lot of the counties here (We have 67 counties) have Sheriffs that run sting operations was carte blanc posing as underaged and then posting those pictures on the news.
Years ago I saw a case where fake drugs were used in a sting. A court found that the arresttee could not be charged because when they finished the transaction, they did not actually buy drugs but flour (For cocain) or shiny rocks (For meth) etc.
So how come when a cop pretends to be an underage person you are charged with meeting an underage person? The answer is simple, the damn courts are hypocrites and are violating their own oaths by putting personal feelings ahead of justice.
None of us (hopefully) are saying sex crimes are ok. We are just asking for equal justice under the law. Which is our rights we are denied.
https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-news/washington-county-commission-passes-new-registered-sex-offender-ordinance/
And did you notice that it was the efforts of two NEIGHBORING counties, plus Florida home rule in general, that created the political situation in Washington County.
That’s a shame. The Panhandle (lower Alabama) has been the area of Florida that’s passed the least sex offender ordinances.
If you look at a sex offender ordinance map of Florida and compare it to a political map, there’s a pretty obvious, although weird, correlation where the more Democratic an area is, the more likely it is to have a sex offender ordinance.
Yeqax
Roughly 70% of the DOC prisons are in northern or panhandle of Florida. Running prisons shouldn’t be a money making industry. I was appalled when I learned how many prisons are in Florida.
Media
I just read it, thanks for sharing. The ONLY good thing I got out of the article is, they are obeying the law by not making it retro active.
“Crews said there are currently 88 registered sex offenders in Washington County but the new rule won’t apply to them as they’re grandfathered in.”
Media
I forgot to add. I do not remember where it was, but a while back a judge ordered somewhere that the excessive distance was illegal. This was due to the fact whatever city it was, was imposing the new restrictions, this new ordinance left NO place in the city limits to live that was more than 2500 feet from any of the listed no go zones.
Cruel and unusual. Want to make the argument in a way they’ll understand? Make a causal link between treatment and punishment. Cruel and unusual treatment is cruel and unusual punishment. It’s the same.
Ron Book is Satan and his spawn Lauren is assisting spreading his evil and hatred.
So says the man responsible for creating more homeless people on South Florida than anyone else in modern history.
There was an article on here one time that said that roughly half of South Florida’s homeless people are sex offenders.
Book is personally responsible for roughly doubling the number of homeless people in the county.