“Check the registry, that’s what it’s for.”

If it were up to me, every time I read a story where some group or politician proposes building a pocket park or something specifically to try to force a registrant to move, that person/group would be criminally charged with using the registry to harass (which all registries specifically forbid but seldom if ever enforced) AND child endangerment for knowingly attempting to induce precious children to the presence of “sex offenders”. Especially in places where child endangerment is a registerable offense. They’d have to admit to one to deny the other. Either way, it’s a pretty good payback for their deliberate insanity.

I think I’d have a heart attack if there were a DA willing to do that.

If you’re going to call them what they actually are, call them cowards. Vandalism is already among the most chicken-sh*t offenses. And there likely isn’t a single one of these “vigilantes” that would dare approach their target without their cohorts at their shoulders, even though by their own admission they never saw the registrant doing anything more sinister than playing xBox.

Taking the law into one’s own hands whether for alleged good or bad is what you are thinking because of what the movies have portrayed it as.

These people are thugs harassing people and if the harassment involves defacing property, physical harm, etc. it is criminal behavior.

Maybe because I am older, but when I would hear the word vigilante I always thought of someone probably doing good because the police can’t or won’t. In our world it is people harassing people who have gone thru the injustice system and those harassing are the ones with criminal intent. So why do we keep using this word? Is it just me? I call them what they actually are…thugs, criminal, lawless, agitator, aggressor, corrupt, abusive…….

BWJ
Those poor souls in the U.K and other countries would not have those issues if the U.S had not invented the offender registries. Lots of countries make rules after the United States make certain laws, such as the registry and then other countries get on board and say “Hey what a great idea, we should do that”.

That was my take away exactly. If the person spying didn’t know this person was a sex offender (or even if they did) why are they peeping in their windows? Perhaps they should be on the registry too.

I’m sure the neighborhood is so much safer now that this guy can no longer play Xbox in his living room instead of watching people from his window (which they never saw either). And the staff at that nursery can go back to handing over the keys to any adult that comes in and take the rest of the day off.