Originally posted by darvlayWe're allowed to know they're here we're just not allowed to know who they are.
From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police website:
"The public does not have access to the National Sex Offender Registry. It is a database that provides Canadian police services with important information that will improve their ability to investigate crimes of a sexual nature."
Damn! You Americans get to have all the fun. 🙁
Originally posted by mokkoI think [though I could be wrong] that we are not allowed to know who or where specifically these pervs are, here...the reason being they tend to get battered just for suspicion of it. There's a bad history here of the wrong people getting battered, even a female pediatrician was attacked cause the eejits didn't know what that meant.
We're allowed to know they're here we're just not allowed to know who they are.
Originally posted by Dr Strangelovedead right! A newspaper in the UK took it upon themselves to print tha names of sex offenders, which led to a rash of attacks on people who happened to have the same or similar names. As much as child molesters and rapists sicken me, people who jump at an excuse to attack someone else sicken me too. They're not beating people up to keep the world safe, they're doing it because they want to take their anger out on someone else and feel superiour to them while doing it. They jump at the opportunity to do it while feeling righteous about it, without even checking if they've got the right target.
I think [though I could be wrong] that we are not allowed to know who or where specifically these pervs are, here...the reason being they tend to get battered just for suspicion of it. There's a bad history here of the wrong people getting battered, even a female pediatrician was attacked cause the eejits didn't know what that meant.
Originally posted by belgianfreakThe worst thing about the News of the Screws "name and shame" campaign is the rank hypocrisy of it.
dead right! A newspaper in the UK took it upon themselves to print tha names of sex offenders, which led to a rash of attacks on people who happened to have the same or similar names. As much as child molesters and rapists sicken me, people who jump at an excuse to attack someone else sicken me too. They're not beating people up to keep the world safe, ...[text shortened]... do it while feeling righteous about it, without even checking if they've got the right target.
They still print topless teenage "beauties" every day and I remember when they had a front page story about paedophiles and an inside story about how the 14-year-old Charlotte Church was blossoming into a woman complete with pic showing swelling "bosoms".
Originally posted by darvlayMaybe "Mounted" Police is a bit of a misnomer in this connection...
From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police website:
"The public does not have access to the National Sex Offender Registry. It is a database that provides Canadian police services with important information that will improve their ability to investigate crimes of a sexual nature."
Damn! You Americans get to have all the fun. 🙁
"Mounties always get their man". Ouch!
Originally posted by sasquatch672I was checking out New Haven, were I used to live some years back. I was extremely disturbed to discover that there is now an offender living in a house that, if memory serves, was once occupied by a female friend of mine...
I've got one on the next block over. Holy crap!
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Originally posted by PawnokeyholeI haven't checked out the site (I don't have an address to enter in). Are they seriously providing the public with the addresses of released offenders? Holy crap! You know that people are going to die if that's right, and not always the intended target either.
I was checking out New Haven, were I used to live some years back. I was extremely disturbed to discover that there is now an offender living in a house that, if memory serves, was once occupied by a female friend of mine...
And what about the other effects this'll have? Sex offenders have to register their whereabouts so that the police/social can keep an eye on them, check they're obeying the rules, seeing their shrink and/or taking their medication. But if this registration leads to them being outed to the public for lynching you can bet they won't hang around. Suddenly you have ex-offenders hiding under new identities- no one knows where they are and they aren't able to continue their treatment, making them much more liekly to reoffend.
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I just managed to look at an example using a work address and another disturbing thought came to mind. This information isn't just making people aware of where ex-offenders are, it's making offenders aware of where other offenders are. I can imagine someone who is wanting to find other like minded people using this to do just that!
Another thought is regarding statuatory rape. I don't know the US laws well enough to know what age bracket this covers but I guess sex with a minor aged 12-17 (in the UK I think it would be 12-16, which is what I base this on). If so you're labelling and putting the same danger on someone who had sex with a 12 year old along with someone who had sex with an old looking 17 year old (don't say this can't happen without the adult knowing - I've picked upa girl in a bar in the US thinking she must be 21+ to be there only to later realise that she was 18). I don't believe that vigilante groups are going to stop to check the details before tourching someones house.
Originally posted by belgianfreakYep, real addresses. Though I believe this info comes from the govt and is hosted and published privately. So I wouldn't gaurantee it's accuracy or how up to date it is.
I haven't checked out the site (I don't have an address to enter in). Are they seriously providing the public with the addresses of released offenders? Holy crap! You know that people are going to die if that's right, and not always the intended target either.
And what about the other effects this'll have? Sex offenders have to register t ...[text shortened]... can imagine someone who is wanting to find other like minded people using this to do just that!
As for the other "effects" you mention - I'm sure society will react the way it always does - in the worst possible manner.
