Tampa City Council to hear report on concentration of sex offenders
Tampa City Council Members will study the findings of a report from the Tampa Police Department on Thursday about a high concentration of sex offenders living in a one-block stretch of Nebraska Avenue in the city’s V.M. Ybor neighborhood.
Tampa police officials say there are now 100 sex offenders living in V.M. Ybor, 76 of them with distance restrictions to schools, daycares, parks and other places children regularly congregate.
The stretch of Nebraska Avenue housing sex offenders is one of only three areas of the city where sex offenders can legally live while not violating any terms of probation or distance restrictions.
However, Tampa police in its report explained that recidivism rates in V.M. Ybor are no different than in other parts of the city where sex offenders live, and having sex offenders living in a more concentrated area helps police with enforcement as well as any offender checks required by law.
Yeah just like herding cattle.that’s how they see it. Does that make you feel any better?
I find it amusing the police say the recidivism rates aren’t any different than any other part of town – but it makes it easier for them.
Maybe it’s just me – but I don’t think the point of the residency laws were meant to make it easier for the police. sigh…
Hopefully the city council sees through this and chucks the residency laws.
As long as Registries exist I will spend (at least) tens of thousands of dollars annually, pay people to exert effort, and exert a lot of mine own effort to make the Registries as difficult to enforce, run, and use as possible. As long as Registries exist, they must cost as much as possible, in time, money, work, peace, and goodwill. Registries are an act of terrorism and war. They are driven by harassing Karens/Kens would are not capable of simply minding their own business and leaving other families alone. Registries deserve an appropriate response and consequences for supporters.
The more difficult it is on the law enforcement criminals, the better. NO ONE should be assisting them in any way (and of course that includes never allowing them to speak to you or see you). They should be concentrating instead on actually working to prevent crimes or maybe solve a couple.
This is encouraging because FAC needs about $10k right now for expert witness fees, transcript fees.
So law enforcement doesn’t want the law changed, because it would make their jobs more difficult. Then there are the neighbors, who probably approved of the residency restrictions until the registrants moved in. I don’t know if this qualifies as Catch 22, but it feels like it.
Do we know whether Hillsborough has its own SORR? Or is this just driven by state law, probation conditions?
Citizens seeking “a new ordinance to break up concentrations” would be advised to look to the example of Gainesville. The alternative, simply legislating a prohibition on concentrations, will surely invite a lawsuit.
Tampa PD wins points here for their straight talk on recidivism.
It reeks of the Jewish ghettos in mid 20th century Europe!!!
It is, indeed, government sponsored hatred!
The Registries exist because of hatred and for hatred. Informed, intelligent, moral people know Registries are worse than worthless and that they should not exist. If someone supports Registries then they are defective at least one of those attributes.
The registry also exists because of monetary funds allocated to whoever feels like becoming a figure who says they are doing it for the kids and are”concerned”.
To yo.
That is funny because not everyone on the registry has a kid as a victim. In fact, there are people on the registry whose only victims were a photo online they viewed. Yes I know if it is a child and you are viewing porn, that is re-victimizing the child, but my point is, I have seen someone get 25 years for looking at a photo and then someone who actually had sex was giving 10 years probation.
Many people on the registry have no under aged victim but get called child molesters or predators without them even looking into our charges. Part of that is sites like Nextdoor which can post basically whatever claims they want about us and we cannot access the site to correct that. I only know what they say about me because one of my neighbors feeds me the dirt they spread about me.
Jack
Yes exactly why the registry needs to be completely shredded.
Worse still, we pay them (in taxes) for the privilege of doing this to us. Maybe we should refrain from paying our taxes until the last moment and then pay it in pennies. Same goes for registration fees (but that may cause more direct retaliation, I suspect.)
‘and having sex offenders living in a more concentrated area helps police with enforcement as well as any offender checks required by law.’
Clearly, they regard this as a prison without a fence.
It is geographical incarceration.
@David Agreed!
“Geographical incarceration” Well said.
Wth do they expect, I mean you hear us around, if course there’s bound to be a cluster of us. Either we migrate together, or simply disappear altogether, what more do they think will happen? And some states wonder why so many have absconded!
Also in Georgia and Alabama it’s work-zone exclusion since your employment has to be so many feet from a non-child place. You can only live in work in certain places. Sounds like punishment to me. Seems also like a few people mentioned the cops are in favor of this since it’s segregation. I just don’t see we have quote after quote showing this registry true intent but yet it’s “civil” I really hope they appeal McGuire vs Strange. I believe they have to the end of the month before clock runs out.
More nimby nonsense and much ado about “concerned parents.” That’s all they do, whine and fear monger about people this label is being forced on. Every. Damn, Day.
Oh look, a “gaggle” of them living in this section! How did this happen? Their ought to be a loophole closed so that I can “feel” safer!
Pathetic.
The way they are describing the registrants reminds me of how they use to treat leapers back in the day. There were actually leaper colonies and those were the only places you were allowed to be, or you would be dealt with in an unpleasant way.
Anyone on the registry is now not even being treated like a human by law enforcement. I have watched many news conferences and it often sounds like they are describing wild animals and not people when referencing “Sex offenders” or “The ones we must not speak of”.
Except the lepers – that lived in colonies were treated somewhat humanely for a condition they were born with. They were basically left alone (out of sight, out of mind) Maybe some were sold off to the circuses at the time, I don’t know, but they weren’t demonized and made a spectacle out of on the Internet.
Lawmakers = we’re not going to solve or prevent anything, but we’re going to make money off of the problem and create jobs while maintaining there is an open-ended “war” against it.
If there’s a coin to be made off outrage and shock value, willful ignorance and indifference is how the U.S. does those things.
Concentration Camps
I live in Hillsboro, I moved here because the residency laws are less insidious then Grady fudds joke county. It’s only 1000 feet from schools, etc. and no bus stop rules
Cross eyed
Well you just gave him all he ever wanted for Christmas. Every time a registered person moves away from GradyVille, he pats himself on the back with a news conference, stating how he is keeping the community safer.
Meanwhile, while tons of his deputies are doing stings on registrants, real crimes are going unsolved and out of control. Law enforcement as a whole is short handed due to cops quitting after incidents such as the George Floyd case. Once officers started actually being held accountable for their actions, they wanted no part of it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11496871/Top-Florida-cop-faces-probe-pulling-rank-deputy-stopped-breaking-law-golf-cart.html?ito=email_share_article-home-preview
Well, what do you know…..anyone surprised?
MP
Thanks for the article. Back in the 80s, I applied for Tampa PD. When I never heard back, I called and asked why I was not hired. They said on the polygraph I failed when asked about cocaine use. That is funny I told them, there was not a question about cocaine use, only a question asking if I had ever used illegal drugs.
This is very rough and low income area they are speaking of…always has been
The issue got pushed back till April 20th https://youtu.be/8g_akPmFLYo
19:50 mark