The Dobbs Wire: Is the sex offense registry growing or shrinking? Hard to tell because the long-time keeper of the national statistics, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), has stopped updating the figures! Every six months for many years NCMEC put a new 50 state map online with the latest numbers. The updated statistics are now months overdue. NCMEC didn’t respond to our questions but we managed to get a reporter for a major media outlet to query them. The word came back – NCMEC confirmed that it no longer updates the map. The reporter, unfortunately, never filed a story, and NCMEC has not announced the change. So you heard it here first – with 900,000 listings and counting, several million people directly impacted — the figures have gone missing. NCMEC is a private entity that gets the bulk of its funding from the federal government, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars over the years. NCMEC is also the group that incited public fears over ‘stranger danger.’ Losing the statistics is lousy but there might be a silver lining – this failure by NCMEC may prompt the federal government to step in and keep tabs on the official blacklist. The US Department of Justice ought to take on this task because these numbers should not be entrusted to a private group that has other agendas. If you have any ideas drop us a line: [email protected] . Below is our dispatch from Dec. 2018 with the last figures released by NCMEC. –Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire
The Dobbs Wire: More than 912,000 on government blacklists – sex offense registry listings INCREASE 4.8% in the last year
The Dobbs Wire has produced a new chart with the latest sex offense registry statistics for every state and Washington DC, along with figures from 2017. One key indicator continues to increase — the total number on blacklists is now 912,643. That’s a 4.8% climb in the last 12 months! 42,001 listings have been added since 2017.
These government blacklists produce no benefit to public safety but they sure pack a punch. Life shattering consequences include routine harassment, discrimination and even vigilante attacks. Are such lists needed? That’s a public discussion that needs to happen.
Oddly, the federal government doesn’t track the numbers; a federally funded non-profit organization does: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) updates an online map with the statistics every six months, those figures are the best available although their accuracy has been questioned.
Have a look at the attachment, our new chart. -Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire Dec. 12, 2018 [email protected]
The Dobbs Wire – Latest registry statistics Dec 17 2018
If there are no other winning bids, they keep getting it.
Perhaps it is well past time we form our own 501(c)(3) to replace them.
Looks like they made a profit of about $10M in 2018. Not bad for a “non-profit” 501(c).
http://www.missingkids.com/footer/about/annual-report
Some of their numbers are very questionable.
Does this mean they don’t need all that government grant money now?LOL. ROTF sorry lost my mind there
I to have asked the NCMEC for the current numbers and how to find them. I was actually looking a few days ago. !’m getting crickets from Patty Wetterling.
I was personally told by the supervisor over the Missouri registry that they ‘do not’ give NCMEC juvenile numbers. Also, I have stated for years that when Congress rolled the debacle (AWA) out they didn’t include a yearly report giving the recidivism rate based on a solid and consistent set of guidelines to measure the effectiveness. How did that happen?
I posted this on Once Fallen back on 2011:
The NCMEC has reported that in June 2011, there was a total of 739,853 registered sex offenders in the United States.
The US Census population for the US in 2010 is 308,745,538. That means about one in every 417 people in the US is on the sex offender registry.
If they all lived in one solitary city, they would make the 17th largest city in the US, eight thousand more than Charlotte, NC and just two thousand less than the 16th Largest City– Ft. Worth, TX.
If they all moved to one state, they would outnumber every resident of the following states– Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, or Wyoming.
In May 2007, the NCMEC reported there were 602,189 RSOs. In 49 months between May 2007 and June 2011, there were 137,664 new registrants added; that is 33,714 new registrants in a year, 2,809 in a month, 92 per day, 4 per hour, or about one new registrant added every 15 minutes.
At the current 33,714 per year average is maintained, the registrant population will top 1 million by March, 2019 (7 years and 9 months from June 2011).
Now, the registry numbers had slowed down because some folks are timing off the registry or the laws have changed somewhat, but the last time I saw numbers, it broke 900,000. Here we are in 2019 and we are very close to a million names on the government blacklist. Maybe they don’t want a bunch of headlines for reaching such a landmark number.
I predicted we’d hit a million at the rate the registry had continued at the pace it had from 2007 to 2011. We aren’t far from that mark.Perhaps we’ve already reached that pinnacle?
If only our ranks would donate just a dollar a year to FAC or other registrant advocacy groups, think of how much work could be done with those resources to make all of our lives better.
Folks, can we give up one bottle of soda a year for that kind of cause?
In future everyone going be on registry. Its easiest way to boost arrest number etc. I am in FL and seems only state doing sex sting on adult site ecery other month. Election year coming and state get funding for updates of it growing registry. Should large numbers why Feds see theres a growing problem a miss used registry. It sickens me to see how they misuse it and mishandle it. They dont care about totals only for public image to make them look good from when there own officers get busted oh and put on registry maybe.
That is a truly amazing and somewhat frightening bit of knowledge. Not knowing how many individuals are actually on the list seems to be problematic since being on this list affects the lives of not only individuals actually on the lests, but affects family members who suffer collateral harm
At the rate that the list was growing , almost 5%, the number of individuals affected will double in approximately 14 years. It will then double again every 14 years assuming a constant rate of growth.
At this rate, management and administrative costs [to say nothing of the human costs] will become a governmental burden too large to ignore.
The agencies in charge may not care about the damage to lives of individuals and families [unless/until they are personally affected] but they take note when it affects the bottom line.
Contact your elected officials, state and federal, it may catch their attention. Can’t hurt.