CBS12 continues feud with sex offenders
Today, CBS12 put out another scare piece that begins, “Our schools and playgrounds have become a home for sex offenders.”
With no shortage of inflammatory statements, such as “registered offenders are eyeing schools too”, “offenders are also getting creative” and “it sounds frightening because it is”, the piece omits all objectivity.
They write, “three years later transient sex offenders in Palm Beach County have more than doubled”, but instead of focusing on the underlying cause, they spin it as if crafty sex offenders are exploiting loopholes to get at children, which is not the cause.
Residency Restrictions have caused the increase in homelessness among registrants in the area. A recent study titled, “Transient Sex Offenders and Residence Restrictions” (which could not be more on point) not only concluded the same, but noted other negative collateral consequences.
At the same time numerous studied have found Residency Restrictions to be ineffective, including this one from the US Department of Justice, which found the restrictions had no effect on re-offending and further, that proximity to schools and parks had little relation to where offenders met victims.
CBS12 points out that transience among homelessness has tripled in recent years as if that’s a desired result among registrants. It’s not! It’s because new registrants get added to the list every year and old ones never come off. It’s because residency restrictions significantly reduce the amount of available housing.
There are plenty of transient registrants who would much rather live with their families than sleep without shelter and defecate in a dumpster at night, but this law has left them without that option.
Maybe the phenomenon is not about sex offenders “eyeing schools” but about human beings eyeing dignity?
Maybe you should start eyeing the research, CBS12?
“It sounds frightening because we’re trying to frighten you.” Local tv news are the spook-newsers of dread. @MichaelBCBS12 @F_A_Committee
Local TV News thrive with Registrants Stories built for ratings boosters. FAC can write a Editorial and demand Coverage of our side. If they say no, start a Boycott of yheir Sponsors, wtite their Sponsors and if nothing changes, rake the battle to CBS New York. If this story travels well lets say AP Pickup, then its worth the fight. Find specifics in the stories are false. Yes, we need to protect our Schools and Playgrounds from Predators but according to stats at State and Federal levels, children are being molested by family and friends the most.
No such thing as “FAC can write a Editorial and demand…”
Put something together and we’ll get behind it.
United States, is nothing but a Jerry Springer Show now.
I just wish they would be fair.
What the hell is wrong with these people??? There is no real RSO news to report so they have to create some??
This is an epidemic phenomena going on now with the media and ” fake news ” . Google, Facebook, and other social media tech giants are working on taking care of this ” fake news ” problem going on. If you Google fake news on social media, you’ll see what’s going on. It’s been the topic on tech blogs in the past weeks.
How convenient that these idiots don’t have a comment section formus to challenge their bs.