Tracking sexual predators...

We have that here in Florida: Florida Sexual Offenders & Predators

 

I see there are a lot from "outside Boston" - hey, isn't that where you live?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Apr 7 2006, 09:52 AM) [snapback]236367[/snapback]</div>

Our local site has a couple that are not listed on this page.

http://ml.waspc.org/

 

A room full of politicians? Too much fustian and too many coprophagous grins for me.

 

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Please consult a good psychiatrist about that particular delusion. Perhaps the medical profession can help you.

 

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Interesting, but it's probably not the registered ones you really have to worry about.

 

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YES....you are corrct. The problem with the registeries is that it gives everyone a false sense of security. Here are some issues...our local registry does NOT list the TYPE of predator. O, I know, they have all thee cute names BUT

I want to know their fetish. If my neighbor lkes pre-pubescent boys, I don't worry about my teen daughter. If he likes to rape women, I am less concerned about my 6 yr old. SEE!!!!!

Also, STATISTICS show that children are most vulnerable to RELATIVES and NEIGHBOR kids, the people PARENTS allow access to their children.

Hey all you Mom's with live in boyfriends...that is statistically the WORSE thing you an do.


Show over substance is what Americans like.

 

Actually it does very much matter. It's not like your prefering one type of dessert or another, it is a whole different situation. Say a person is into pre-pubsecent boys, it is likely that they don't aren't even attracted to boys that are fully developed or girls for that matter. Of course, there are some exceptions, but those are exceptions and not the norm. A relevant example could be someone that is afraid of spiders (has a phobia of them). Other insects with 8 legs don't bug them, roaches or whatever don't lead to the physiological arousal that the spiders do. Same general idea with sex offenders. There are many ways to become a sex offender, so a person has no idea how dangerous the person on the list really is.


Schmika is correct about this illusion of safety. A fairly recent (last three weeks or so) a Criminal Minds show touched on this as well. A person is much more likely to be abused by someone they know (family, family friends, etc), the people that parents aren't going to think twice about letting their child spend some one on one time with until it is too late.

 

You are certainly entitled to designate all of them equally risky. It doesn't make it true or appropriate. The statistics and research is clear on that there is a difference in risk. The fact is that we should be wary of everyone around us and not focus on the sex offenders as the ones to watch out for.

The fact that their crime was sex-related doesn't mean they are addicted to all kinds of sex and sexual partners. Just like because some is addicted to meth that they have an equal addiction to alcohol. Just keep in mind when you find the sex offender in your neighborhood, if you neglect the neighbors, the family friends, the teachers, you are most likely missing the ones who are most likely to get your daughter or son.

We need to be teaching our kids to mindful of anyone acting inappropriately toward them and have clear lines of communications about what to do if it happens. This is regardless if they are never around any registered sex offenders.

 

MS, you can't live your life equating ALL risk equally. If you did, you would put yourself in danger in some things and be too careful in others.

A foolish consistency is the hob goblin of little minds (Quoting an unkown person here) You can have very good arguments at times but then you go and become dogmatic on me.

 

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OK...but this is a subject where your "opinion" is just hot gas out of your a**. They are NOT equally risky. A) you don't have kids, B) you are not married, and C) you have absolutely no credible experience in this realm.

(The above comment is negated if it turns out Squid is A) a sexual predator, or B) had extensive training in the field or comensurate experience in Law enforcement/ corrections.

 

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Karl

Well you never know ... he *does* have a personal web page at the infamous myspace dot com.

BTW your quote from Albert Ellis is absolutely correct

 

Okay..I feel the need to jump in on this one....First let me qualify myself, I am a supervisor with the Parole Division of Tx Dept of Criminal Justice...In Texas, Parole Division is divided in 2 parts, the District Parole Office (Field office) and the Institutional Division..I work for the Institutional Division...we interview the offenders that are deemed eligible for possible release to parole supervision. Over my career, I have interviewed hundreds of sex offenders. True, the majority of them target victims that are close to them, e.g. family members and friends; but there are the truly sexually deviant that target anyone and everyone, it doesn't matter. Someone's 6 year old boy may trigger something in their mind as much as a 40 yr old woman....to them it doesn't matter. It is a matter of control, Period!

We do a very throrough sexual deviancy evaluation and a risk assessment on each offender that has a current sexual offense or a prior sexual offense or offense with a sexual element. In Texas, the DPS website(www.txdps.state.tx.us) has our Sex Offender database. Depending on the level of risk determined, the level of local notification may include just a notice to school officials and a posting in the newspaper to postcards going out in a predetermined radius (all of which the offender pays for). These notifications list the age and sex of the victim and also will list the risk level...the higher the number, the higher the risk.

One thing that I must mention, is that not all sex offenders are as easy to spot. During an interview, one of my co-workers, several years ago, observed the offender get very nervous and ancy during the time he was in her office. After concluding the interview and doing a few collateral contacts, she learned that the offender had an aggressive history regarding females and had often acted out in sexually inappropriate ways. We interview behind closed doors with the offender and they are not in restraints unless their security level deems it.

Schmika might agree with me in that most pedophiles target young children because they can groom that child into doing what they want and at first the child, especially young children, may not realize something is going on. But in the end, it all comes down to one thing, Control. Where as most of your rapists, it is an anger issue along with the control issue.