Tampa City Council to hear report on concentration of sex offenders
Tampa City Council Members will study the findings of a report from the Tampa Police Department on Thursday about a high concentration of sex offenders living in a one-block stretch of Nebraska Avenue in the city’s V.M. Ybor neighborhood.
Tampa police officials say there are now 100 sex offenders living in V.M. Ybor, 76 of them with distance restrictions to schools, daycares, parks and other places children regularly congregate.
The stretch of Nebraska Avenue housing sex offenders is one of only three areas of the city where sex offenders can legally live while not violating any terms of probation or distance restrictions.
However, Tampa police in its report explained that recidivism rates in V.M. Ybor are no different than in other parts of the city where sex offenders live, and having sex offenders living in a more concentrated area helps police with enforcement as well as any offender checks required by law.
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Well, what do you know…..anyone surprised?
MP
Thanks for the article. Back in the 80s, I applied for Tampa PD. When I never heard back, I called and asked why I was not hired. They said on the polygraph I failed when asked about cocaine use. That is funny I told them, there was not a question about cocaine use, only a question asking if I had ever used illegal drugs.
I live in Hillsboro, I moved here because the residency laws are less insidious then Grady fudds joke county. It’s only 1000 feet from schools, etc. and no bus stop rules
Cross eyed
Well you just gave him all he ever wanted for Christmas. Every time a registered person moves away from GradyVille, he pats himself on the back with a news conference, stating how he is keeping the community safer.
Meanwhile, while tons of his deputies are doing stings on registrants, real crimes are going unsolved and out of control. Law enforcement as a whole is short handed due to cops quitting after incidents such as the George Floyd case. Once officers started actually being held accountable for their actions, they wanted no part of it.
Concentration Camps
More nimby nonsense and much ado about “concerned parents.” That’s all they do, whine and fear monger about people this label is being forced on. Every. Damn, Day.
Oh look, a “gaggle” of them living in this section! How did this happen? Their ought to be a loophole closed so that I can “feel” safer!
Pathetic.
The way they are describing the registrants reminds me of how they use to treat leapers back in the day. There were actually leaper colonies and those were the only places you were allowed to be, or you would be dealt with in an unpleasant way.
Anyone on the registry is now not even being treated like a human by law enforcement. I have watched many news conferences and it often sounds like they are describing wild animals and not people when referencing “Sex offenders” or “The ones we must not speak of”.
Except the lepers – that lived in colonies were treated somewhat humanely for a condition they were born with. They were basically left alone (out of sight, out of mind) Maybe some were sold off to the circuses at the time, I don’t know, but they weren’t demonized and made a spectacle out of on the Internet.
Lawmakers = we’re not going to solve or prevent anything, but we’re going to make money off of the problem and create jobs while maintaining there is an open-ended “war” against it.
If there’s a coin to be made off outrage and shock value, willful ignorance and indifference is how the U.S. does those things.
Also in Georgia and Alabama it’s work-zone exclusion since your employment has to be so many feet from a non-child place. You can only live in work in certain places. Sounds like punishment to me. Seems also like a few people mentioned the cops are in favor of this since it’s segregation. I just don’t see we have quote after quote showing this registry true intent but yet it’s “civil” I really hope they appeal McGuire vs Strange. I believe they have to the end of the month before clock runs out.
Wth do they expect, I mean you hear us around, if course there’s bound to be a cluster of us. Either we migrate together, or simply disappear altogether, what more do they think will happen? And some states wonder why so many have absconded!