Miami Herald: How your kids can avoid the risks of Halloween
In discussing the FDLE’s Sex Offense Registry, the Miami Herald does state that “the database’s information is not meant to be a judgment on the level of risk an offender might be to others.” Yes, the registry tells us nothing about the risk level.
The article then goes on to say, “But it’s a tool parents can use to make their own risk assessment based on the information provided.” No, parents cannot, as the FDLE database does not cover where the majority of the dangers lie: the 90% of future sexual offenses that will be committed by people not on the registry; the 93% or higher future sexual offenses against minors that will be by people they know; and the research-based risk assessment for each person forced to register.
What’s interesting is that hardly anyone in the modern media connects the dots. They report on PFRs and registry violations and Halloween. But what about another issue of the mass exodus of correctional officers from state and federal prisons? See US prisons face staff shortages as officers quit amid COVID
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2021/11/01/us-prisons-face-staff-shortages-as-officers-quit-amid-covid/
Spot on commentary!! 👍🏼
A registrant exposed himself to trick-or-treaters this weekend, after inviting them in for candy.
It was in most major Utah news outlets. You can google it.
Talk about ruining it for everybody.
It might be safe to assume that particular person may have mental issues. But of course they’ll conflate it to ALL registrants. That’s how you sell news and gain advertisers.
My observations about the Utah incident:
The fool was on SO probation, and clearly not right in the head. He had no business having contact with children, but did.
Parents apparently didn’t heed the registry and had their children show up at this man’s house anyway.
Analysis: No registry, rule, or law would have stopped this particular man from doing what he did. If it wasn’t Halloween night, it probably would have been while shopping at the grocery store the next day.
This guy will be where he needs to be very soon, and a million other law abiding registrants will likely bear the blame for it.
Ohio police make ‘demented’ discovery inside Halloween trick-or-treat candy: ‘Take this seriously’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-police-halloween-candy-trick-or-treat
Since registrants were not allowed to pass out candy, we can conclude this was done by someone not on the registry. Keeping children safe huh?
Exactly!
“But it’s a tool parents can use to make their own risk assessment based on the information provided.”
Wrong. It doesn’t give parents an “informed decision,” it gives them a forced perspective rooted in fear and hate. It’s shaming and vilification by proxy. It’s no different from the Romans parading Jesus through the streets before his trial – to demoralize, shame and dis empower. .
The registry coddles parental privilege to the extreme.
This is a quote from a book series by Terry Goodkind, sums up everything “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”
Lies bring comfort to the easily led. The registry gives aid and psychological comfort to people that don’t even need it, yet emotional hysteria makes the family unit falsely believe they do.