According to Tampa’s WTSP News “the Florida Sheriff’s Association is happy with the Halloween initiative to keep kids safe during trick or treating and related events.”
Why are they “happy” you ask?
You need to scroll to the bottom of the page to find out the real reason they are happy. According to the article, “Hours dedicated to this operation: 774 hours”
774 hours to “check” on persons required to register on Halloween when historically there has NEVER been an uptick of sexual assaults at an average rate of $28.50/hour, means the Sheriffs just wasted $22,059 (excluding overtime) essentially going trick-or-treating for pay, when they could have been out stopping actual crime.
I’d be happy too!
In Pinellas, “law enforcement spent 774 hours determining that…everyone was following the law.
“There’s no association between Halloween and sexual violence, and that there’s no association between compliance with the registry and recidivism.”
Per Guy Hamilton-Smith, on Twitter. You should open an account there and follow him.
Guy is a must follow for anyone on twitter.
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I couldn’t help but think of all the LE resources being wasted with SO registry nonsense even though there are more serious issues at hand as seen in the press release below.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-chief-warns-of-mexican-super-labs
They are happy like some special needs people are when they are licking windows. No difference.
It’s much easier to steal taxpayer resources with “work” like this than it is to do actual work.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is a liar. He said, “The safety of our children is always top of mind for law enforcement throughout the state of Florida.” Of course that is a lie. If it were not, this “operation” never would have been considered.
Further, he implied that all Registered People (RPs) were checked. The article also said the “operation” “included physical checks on every sexual offender/predator”. I’m skeptical. The article said that 1,555 of 1,567 of the RPs in Pinellas County were “in compliance”. I read that to mean that the law enforcement criminals (LECs) met each of those 1,555 people at their homes. I don’t believe that.
If that were true, it would be very disappointing.
The question is – do people want these types of “operations” to end? Do we want “compliance checks” to stop? I’m not sure I do. I think it is great when LECs waste their time, money, and other resources. I also really, really hope that these operations very negatively affect the morale of every LEC. It should. Any of them with a brain should be embarrassed and humiliated. Any of them with a brain should understand how this kind of nonsense has destroyed their authority, respect, and ability to be effective. So in that sense, I love the waste of these “operations”. I hope it continues to be very, very difficult for law enforcement agencies to attract qualified, good, normal people to work there. They’ll continue to have the dysfunctional work environment that they’ve always had.
But on the moral, proper, American side – I don’t think these PR stunts should be allowed. But in order to stop them, RPs are going to have to have a spine, stand up, and refuse to allow them. I’ve said it 1,000 times – I don’t think RPs should allow LECs around their homes ever. So how will this nonsense continue in the future? Does everyone want LECs to continue to do PR stunts and brag about them in an attempt to extort more money from the clueless, gullible public?
Today, I’ll personally ensure that Registries are much worse than worthless and very damaging. Will you?
If they are happy about wasting time on registrants, does that also mean they are happy that they are not patrolling the streets looking for drunk drivers that ARE out there, potentially hitting children out trick or treating?
These statistics are from the Edgar Snyder & Associates law firm:
– 44% of national fatal crashes during Halloween weekends involved a driver or motorcyclist with a BAC of 0.08 or higher.
38% of fatal crashes that occurred on Halloween nights involved a driver or motorcyclist with a BAC of 0.08 or higher.
23% of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween night included a drunk driver.
And, according to the AAA:
– One-fourth of all pedestrian deaths ranging in age from 5-14 occurred in the four days leading up to Halloween (October 28-31) in 2017.
On Halloween night 2017, 89 people were fatally injured in a traffic crash, with 13 percent involving alcohol.
In 2017, more than half of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween occurred with the pedestrian outside of a marked crosswalk.
From 2013 – 2017, 158 people were killed in drunk-driving crashes on Halloween night
From 2013 – 2017, 22 percent of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween night involved a drunk driver.
During that period, 42 percent of all people killed in motor vehicle crashes on Halloween night were in crashes involving a drunk driver.
Now reading these statistics, one would believe that if drunk drivers are that dangerous around Halloween, then registered citizens must be far more dangerous. However, no matter how hard I try, and I have tried very hard, I cannot find a single source of anyone showing that a registered citizen has ever committed a crime against a child out trick or treating on Halloween.
So the sheriff departments waste 774 combined hours chasing a problem that has never existed, while drunk drivers are out running over people. And they are happy about this? Pathetic!
-The Real Witch Hunt
My own City of Apopka in Orange County has patrolled visits about every 4 months. They don’t visit on Halloween. Other than State and County they keep their own records of current RSOs.
Every jurisdiction has its own set of rules making compliance damn near impossible. With nearly 100,000 registered offenders in Florida and 17% homeless its also damn near impossible for Law Enforcement to supervise!
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I’d have a wall around my home for certain. I would not allow them to speak to me there. Well, I don’t allow them to speak to me anywhere ever.
News4Jax aka News4 Fear mongering, had a news piece yesterday about how Clay county(which ironically fell on the same day as the city council meeting about new restictions on RSO’s, imagine that) spent 546 man hours checking on all registrants on Halloween (operation safe streets or some nonsense) Time and money better spent on other crimes. The whole thing makes me sick.
If people allow it, it will continue. Guaranteed.
I saw that news clip on News4Jax. In fact I posted some information on it at a different FAC article. I noted that the “big news” was that there were TWO arrests made but the sheriff’s office would not say what the arrests were for. I assume that it would have been embarrassing for the deputies to tell how petty the reason was for their arrests, and then word would have gotten out how our taxpayer money was being wasted on such trivial matters while real crime was taking place in other parts of the county.
Law enforcement most times is happy to communicate with the press. Our side often is more reluctant, or harder for the press to find. Sometimes suspects are reluctant to embarrass themselves or understand per their lawyers that they shouldn’t speak.
So the press can get a dramatic story, one that attracts readers and as revenue, without a lot of work or expense.
That’s how reporters in effect become law enforcements’ free PR stenographers.
Law enforcement realizes this and takes full advantage of the situation, as it helps them maximize their budgets.
This – like 80% of ALL funds going to law enforcement is shamelessly wasted. Get rid of the corruption and actually use the money to protect the people and not just a few in this POLICE STATE!
Absolutely. I encourage all people to join groups that work hard to police the corrupt police. Work hard to shrink the resources that they have available. Work hard to ensure everything they do is more difficult than it should be.
Just because Registries exist.
War is compelled.
Wait here’s something else to think about. 774 hours ? Figure we have to be in at 6:00pm till what midnight at the latest. That would be about
129 deputys doing this detail so who was left to go out on real calls
The article said it was a 3 day operation. Perhaps it wasn’t even on Halloween? And of course what they did had nothing to do with public safety. All of the people that they “checked on” had already told everyone where they lived, worked, etc. This “operation” didn’t change any of that. Did not affect anything.
But anyway, what do you mean by “we”? Surely you are not implying that most people who are listed on the Registries (in these 18 counties that were checked) have to be at their homes on Halloween. That is not true. In fact, I would expect that most could go wherever they like on Halloween. And they should have.
No one should allow law enforcement to visit them at their homes, work, or anywhere else. No one should ever speak to law enforcement other than when forced to by “law”, at a government location, and in writing only.
I meant no offence to anyone I am on probation and in Polk county you have to be in by 6:00 . Also while on probation you have to let the leo nazis come on your property and in your home. Lots of people on here talk about stuff that effects people that arnt on probation not thinking of the ones who are on probation still that alot of the stuff the they do “Leo’s” directy effects
You meant no offense? What did you say? I replied to “Tim”.
Anyway, I assumed that Tim meant that he was on probation or parole. And I was pretty much saying to him what you said – do not assume that everyone is on probation or parole. And don’t assume the opposite. All of us should know very well that there is a mix and always keep that in mind. I think that most people do.
Part of the way that these law enforcement criminals (LECs) sell these PR stunts to the clueless, gullible public is that they try to mislead them to believe that they are “monitoring” people and that people who are listed on the Registries have sensible restrictions regarding Halloween (or whatever) that actually do something useful. They WANT the public to be mislead that way. They want the public to believe their lies. They NEVER tell the public the ways that their “checks” or whatever are not effective. Never.
For example, in all the blabbing and bragging that they did all over the country about their Halloween nonsense, not one single time in any place did I see them tell the public that most people who are Registered do not have to be at their homes on Halloween and that the LECs will have no clue where they are. IF this nonsense were ACTUALLY for public safety as they lie, then they would certainly want the public to know those details. I mean, if Registries actually mattered, those details would be critical. But they don’t tell the public. Because it isn’t for public safety. It is to make the public think they are protecting them and that they need more money.
We all need to remember – because Registries exist, law enforcement must suffer. Their pathetic jobs must be even more pathetic.
What a waste of money and time. They need to watch the crazy drivers while their kids are out trick or treating. Let alone the ones in costume. And two kids shot on halloween….really.
Lol right?
Of course, it’s always been about money, why else must they find new ways to guarantee federal incentives for law service.
It is not just federal money of course. As they grow their “$EX offender” harassment business larger and larger, they simply need more money in their budgets to run it. To “protect children from predators”. They will ALWAYS ask the county, state, and federal governments for more money. Always. The bigger government grows, the more money they “need”.