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Limit Where Sex Offenders Live?
T O P I C Discussion Started: 06-15-2006, 1:11 PM Add to the Discussion
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Do you think cities should limit where sexual offenders live?

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opus1952 06-15-2006, 5:12 PM Add to the Discussion
This guy is my hero. Intelligent, articulate, doesnt follow the crowd. I totally agree with his assesment on sex offendes. Why dont we treat murders and violent behavior like we treat sex offenders? Is it less offesive to kill a child than touch one? We dont ruin, hound, and tell murderers where they can live for the rest of thier lives. Also enticing people into compromising situations and then treating them like criminals when they have done nothing wrong excet talk is just wrong.

lynnopus , titusville

nmbrill 06-15-2006, 8:58 PM Add to the Discussion
Hopefully if Jim Philips feels this way, all the sex offenders can live in his neighborhood, not mine. WESH 2 should be ashamed they have him on their staff. Our children should be safe and we should be aware of preditors in our neighborhood!! Nancy Brill, Ocala, FL

nbrill

RoboCopper 06-16-2006, 6:43 AM Add to the Discussion
Jim has a point here. The point is people make mistakes and once the crime is paid, we must move on.

Live and let live.Forgive the individual. BLAH BLAH BLAH

But Wait a minute.....

I recall a person (Convicted Sexual Offender) who said on television he admitted his crime to everyone he met.

The reason, said he, was by telling everyone his crime he had everything OUT in the Open and since everyone watched him, the children were safe and there was ACCOUNTABILITY..

Some of the most despicable Sexual offenders maintain nice lawns, coach baseball, and play Uncle Joe to children of single parents.

Sexual urge in some is very strong. By OUTING the offender the community is safer. Tough on the convicted,yes but by doing this the common good is preserved.

It would be better if the convicted told everyone himself and be accountable.

alpkirk 06-16-2006, 7:45 AM Add to the Discussion
I also agree that this is becoming the modern-day "scarlet letter". Once a person has served their time, they should be allowed to live in society like any other person that has committed a crime. Also, a person accused of such a crime should be considered innocent until found guilt by a court of law... I had a family member that was falsely accused of child molestation, but still lost his job, pension, health benefits, and became an outcast of society even though he had not been found guilty.

Kirk Garreans Orlando, Florida

cheewiee 06-16-2006, 9:12 AM Add to the Discussion
Is the scarlet letter a bad thing?

I don't know. First we need to recognize that there are those who are forced to register as sex offenders who are not.

Under Florida law if you get busted taking a drunken leak in an empty alley you are a sex offender. Your picture, and address go on the FDLE website just like Uncle Joe kiddie diddler.

The second question we have to ask ourselves, is pedophila qualify as a sexual preference. There are those, (Including a new political Party in Denmark) who would say that it is a sexual preference that they do not choose, but rather are born with.

Do you feel comfortable living next to somone who is only sexually aroused by your son/daughter?

Phillip's stance only highlights the fact that the man has never had a child of his own (Folks the guy telling you how to parent, never has). Being just 28, I remember the day when I could play in my parents front yard. I had the freedom to walk down to my buddies house w/o the fear of someone grabbing me.

Sex offender registries make sense when the laws are written in such a way that eliminate those "false" offenders leaving those who have proven that they present a clear willingness to molest children...

Jason Kovalik Ocoee, Fl

=justice51 06-16-2006, 10:01 AM Add to the Discussion
Give the guy a cigar! If people would worry about those who are a serious threat (high risk offender) instead of low-no risk offenders a much better eye could be kept on the ones who need it (john Couey). I go to sleep in the good ole USA and sometimes I think I have awakened in Old Russia or Old Nazi Germany. I don't need to jump off a tall building to know it will hurt when I land and Mr.Philips does not need to be a parent to be able to state the obvious. No, residency restrictions DO NOT WORK and cause serious untoward consequences. See (2) Iowa County Attorneys Association, Statement on Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Iowa, February 2006. Link: http://www.iowa-icaa.com/ICAA%20STATEMENTS/Sex%20Offender%20Residency%20Statement%20Feb%2014%2006%20for%20website.pdf and Sex Offender Zoning Laws Don't Work At All"; Statement by Nancy Sabin, Executive Director for the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, May 2006. Link: http://www.kare11.com/cs/blogs/scott_goldberg/archive/2006/05/17/1988.aspx

WebUser 06-16-2006, 10:14 AM Add to the Discussion
This Jim Philips character is an idiot. Is WESH2 news site so desperate as to include his idiotic ramblings, just to shock and appaul people? He's clearly a "shock jock", a bitterly liberal one at that. Otherwise, he could have been dismissed long time ago as a "hater". I can't believe one of the posts here calls him a "personal hero". Must be his mom?

dbeao 06-16-2006, 11:30 AM Add to the Discussion
It is true that the law only lables them but does not speciefy what the actual crime is. I do feel as if they should be kept away from schools and certain places but only those who actually did the actual crime. I do believe that what they did in those neighborhoods were wrong but I do feel as if there crime should be known so as a parent you are aware. I have a sexual offender on my block and even though I wish he did not live there I make sure to keep a extra eye out on my daughters. but regardless time has changed. like it was said, I am 23 and I remember when I could step outside and play without my parents and having any worries of the disasters that go on today. so no matter what if there in your block or not you should be extra careful of your childs were abouts.

Dianne

marydoogan 06-16-2006, 1:12 PM Add to the Discussion
http://www.kare11.com/cs/blogs/scott_goldberg/default.aspx

"Sex Offender Zoning Laws Don't Work At All"

That's from Nancy Sabin, Executive Director of the Jacob Wetterling Foundation (www.jwf.org).

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http://www.kare11.com/news/investigative/extras/extras_article.aspx?storyid=124665

As you may know, the Jacob Wetterling Foundation (JWF) is a Twin Cities based organization whose mission is to protect children from sexual exploitation and abduction. Nancy had a number of thoughts about the laws we discussed in last night's Extra -- laws that restrict where convicted sex offenders can live.

"It is one of the poorest uses of our resources, vigilance and supervision," she said.

Here's why, according to JWF:

1. Nationwide, there are no known cases of children being exploited in the "safety zones" created by these laws, i.e., within 2000 feet of a school, day care center or playground

2. Most of the people convicted of sex crimes -- 92 percent -- are first-time offenders. In other words, they would not have been subject to the restrictions laid out in these zoning ordinances in the first place.

3. Of the 400 cases presented to JWF in the last 5 years, fewer than five percent of the alleged molesters are convicted sex offenders

4. Most sex crimes are happening "under our noses, in our own homes." In other words, as KARE reported last night, most attackers are related to their victims or know them well.

Nancy went on to say there "is not one piece of research that supports zoning laws," which have been passed in the Minnesota cities of Wyoming and Taylors Falls.

<snip>The zoning laws provide a "false sense of safety."

Mary Doogan Orlando

shellec 06-16-2006, 3:09 PM Add to the Discussion
You cannot compare sex offenders to murderers, and certainly not to petty criminals. Sure, there are the FEW exceptions to this rule, but most sex offenders will strike again. They cannot stop themselves, they are wired that way. People kill out of passion or oppurtunity or just plain stupidity, but sex offenders molest children out of pure need and desire- a desire that will not go away unless we castrate them (and I'm not fully opposed to that.) I agree, it is probably horrible living with neighbors who plaster posters about you around the neighborhood and having your picture on websites... then guess what??? Dont molest children and you won't have to deal with that. Pretty simple.

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