| Re: Lewisville Faces Federal Lawsuit Over Sex Offender Or... |
Poster: Anonymous Posted: 2012/4/1 8:17:52 This article and writer are DEAD ON POINT...except for one sentence...."Sex offender registration and monitoring, or court-imposed supervision - those are things that have public-safety goals, and are not merely punitive." That is simply not the case. The whole point of the registry is additional punishment not public safety. If public safety indeed was the goal, we would have registries for murderers, home invasion robbers, car jackers and those other crimes that are a threat to EVERYONE. We don't. Thus the registry is just additional punishment that allows the falsely accused, the teenage lover, the internet big mouth to be punished up to lifetime with being unable to work or live anywhere. Shunning is the punishment and it is severe...and it affects entire families not just the accused. Many wind up committing suicide so some polititian can convince the uneducated they are PROTECTING them. (God save me from PROTECTING polititians) Not only do the residency restrictions need to be changed, the Registry needs to be eliminated. It also does absolutely nothing to protect the public. Would you rather live next door to a teenage lover or a murderer? With our current system, you will not know about the bigger threat. (PS. recidivism of those on the Registry is 8.5% so we are brutally damaging 91 FAMILIES out of 100 to promote a politician...is that really worth it?) |