The Dobbs Wire: Registry INCREASES by 3.3% in 6 months – latest stats
The Dobbs Wire: The number of listings on sex offense registries in the U.S. has climbed to over 900,000, an increase of 3.3% in the last six months.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) just released its latest map which shows the latest figures for sex offense registries in all states. (NCMEC is a private organization that gets much of its funding from the federal government. Their map is updated twice a year; reliability of the numbers is uncertain.) The map and explanation sheet is online here: http://www.missingkids.com/content/dam/ncmec/en_us/SOR%20Map%20with%20Explanation.pdf
One key indicator continues to increase, the total number listed on registries is now 900,202. That’s a 3.3% (29,560) rise since the last count six months ago.
Attached are three charts produced by The Dobbs Wire that will tell you more.
Chart A Registries across the country – the numbers
This chart shows the biggest (California) to the smallest (Washington, DC) registries. A relatively small number of states have a large portion of the total registrants in the country — the 10 biggest registries have more than half (56%), the 15 biggest have more than two-thirds (68%).
Chart B Registries – differences among the states
This chart shows that some states put more of their people on the registry. One example is Michigan where the registry is 4th largest in the country but the state is only the 10th largest by population. Michigan’s registry has more people on it than New York’s, a state with twice the population. Oregon is the 27th largest state by population while it has the 9th largest registry.
Chart C Registries ranked by per capita registration rate and population
This chart shows wide variation in per capita registration rates around the country – from 120 (Maryland) to Oregon (679) per 100,000 population. Of the 10 states with the highest registration rates, some are small or medium size in population (Delaware, South Dakota, Wyoming, Arkansas) while others are quite populous such as Florida and Michigan.
The latest figures show some states with notable increases in registration since Nov. 2017:
Texas 8% (91,912 to 99,175)
Tennessee 3% (23,262 to 29,123)
North Carolina 4% (17,621 to 24,173)
Kentucky 3% (11,299 to 14,123)
Vermont 62% (1,333 to 2,166)
Rhode Island 23% (2,600 to 3,207)
The latest figures show at least one state with a notable decrease in registration since Nov. 2017:
Washington 11% (22,045 to 19,525)
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Does anyone know how they get these figures? Is there a central reporting agency?
Sadly, it will reach the 1,000,000 marker in no time.
We need a million marchers on the capitol steps!
We’ve lost our country people. IDK what’s so hard to understand about that. Unless all of us are willing to take drastic actions, it’s not gonna change. They won’t stop until all of us are registered, tracked, surveilled, and eventually microchipped. Im not surprised by this at all. Yet, we just sit back and do nothing about it and just keep trudging along with our lives like none of this is going on and in time it’ll just all get better somehow. Yeah right. Keep dreaming. It’s over people. Sorry. We let it get out of hand for far too long.
At the VERY least, everyone should donate money towards legal efforts of the 3 major organizations ALCSOL, FAC, NARSOL, instead of sitting and feeling sorry for themselves and complaining about the ‘hopelessness’. Oh please. Pathetic. At least donate money to help fight for the cause. This country has turned people into Victims of all types, not Fighters. Victims will remain victims for life if they think of themselves that way. People should be feeling ANGRY and Outraged, not moping around and keeping their head down as much as possible. It’s the 3-4 families of real victims of abductions and murders that launched most of these laws after losing their children. Look at what a FEW families can do when they get outraged, although they over did it. They didn’t mope around feeling sorry for themselves, which way too many people on these article commentary sections sound like.
You’re right Joe. In between the 3 jobs that I work Mon-Sat that don’t even pay all of my bills, and the $1500 I’m having to pay my lawyer just to get off probation early and the weekly classes that I have to pay $25 for and the polygraphs I have to take at a cost of $200 a pop and the monthly probation fees I have to pay, I will gladly pull some money out of my ass and give it to whatever XYZ organization is out there trying to fight for my cause. And you said 3-4 families 20-30 years ago are the cause of a lot of this. And you’re correct. Hell, TWO people here in Florida are the cause of most if it also. But here’s the problem. They were smart…….and stinking rich. The cause they were fighting for was EXTREMELY sympathetic and could garner instant support by playing on the emotions and fears of the general public (parents and guardians mostly). Thus, the path they had to take to get what they want was paved with super-greased skids all the way to the White House and State Houses. Our cause??? I mean, c’mon. If 270 homeless RSOs living under a bridge is not enough to garner sympathy for our plight, then I don’t know what is? Maybe we need to parade as many children of RSOs out there for all the world to see how these stupid laws are and keeping them from their moms and dads. I mean, our fight is kind of like us standing on the beach holding a sandbag, trying to stop an incoming tsunami. Even if all 900,000 of us stood on the beach holding sandbags, we’re still all gonna get washed away. I always thought maybe a “Million Man March” type storm of Washington with RSOs and their families would work, but when most of us are on probation and stuck even inside our own counties or can’t travel outside the state because of stupid registration laws, how in the hell are we gonna get up there? Most of us can’t even go to our own state capitals right now!!
So, I feel your sentiment Joe. And I want to fight like hell just as much as the next person. But what’s the strategy? Most organizations are fighting this law here, and that law here with very little money and limited resources. The members that they serve (RSOs) and their families, simply don’t have the money needed to afford high-powered attorneys or file expensive lawsuits and challenges. So I ask honestly, what are we left to do?? And even if we do get any sort of traction on pushing back any laws, how long is it gonna take to overturn?? How old will I be when I finally get some relief from this bullsh*t?? It’s like, well damn, I’ve already lived 25, 30, 40 years under this BS, why does it matter if I’m not gonna be “free” from it until I’m 70-80 years old?? So yeah Joe, when you stop and think about all of these factors, how can you not be hopeless and depressed and sit here and complain about it? The almighty govt has UNLIMITED power, money, resources, and law-making, constitution-shredding ability against us, that again, it’s like fighting a tsunami with sandbags.
So what’s your strategy my man? How can stop the tsunami? Because right now, I don’t even have enough money for HALF a sandbag.
MJ – I hear you – I really do. I am struggling as well and so is my son. However, I realized that if each and every person donated just one dollar every month, or every 2 weeks – that is a dollar that FAC did not have before to fight for us. 1 dollar. They will take it – I know they will.
Sometimes those that want to contribute do not because they think it has to be a good chunk of change – but just like everyone is talking about banding together to fight the same thing applies to donating.
I understand what you’re saying. For now, people should focus on donating whatever they can do the legal efforts of these organization since they’re spearheading this, even if it’s $10-20. Let collective power work for you. These people have dedicated a part of their lives to fighting this injustice, so we need to use our last dollars, after basic bills paid for, to fund the legal efforts.
I see Vermont had a 62% increase. I would assume that’s from people moving their because Vermont is the most lax state when it comes to sex offenders.
I can’t seem to find a website for Dobbs, just a twitter account. I don’t see Charts A,B, and C that you describe.
Looks like Floriduh is right on pace increasing 3.4%, swelling our ranks to 73,444.
But we still don’t know how many Florida registrants actually live in Florida. 😉
roughly 23k are in the community
It seems to me that this many registrants-organized, would make a large political demographic on the national level. Am I wrong?
Nope. But how does that happen? Guess we can have the Million RSO March on Washington. We need a national group to organize it.