My blogging partner Joe Friday is outraged by this story not just because of Georgia’s screw up but the overly sympathetic presentation of those poor sex offenders (rapists and child molesters) who society is just so mean to.
From Greenville Dragnet:
Child molesters, rapists, and kidnappers are among the 441 registered sex offenders authorities in Georgia are unable to locate. And with parts of Georgia less than 50 miles from Greenville, the peach state’s missing sex offenders could be our problem too.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation maintains the state’s sex offender registry, and is charged with keeping tabs on over 17,000 offenders. Authorities have lost track of almost 250 registered sex offenders just from metro Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Of course the AJC report doesn’t at all mention that the only reason sex offenders go non-compliant is that they are up to no good. Nor does it mention that sex offender recidivism rates vary widely depending on the study but in essence every study done only proves that recidivism rates for sex offenders are lower when those offenders are being monitored.
As Joe Friday says the AJC is unconcerned with the new statistics these missing sex offenders are creating even now. Instead they’re earning their liberal street cred by claiming that people who have raped women or molested children are now being unfairly victimized.
This is pretty scary… makes me wonder how many are unaccounted for in my area. Hell, any of those 441 could be here or anywhere, for that matter.
This definitely needs to be taken more seriously. If those people wanted to prove they’re no longer a threat, they’d register and let LE know where they are. But, hey, you can’t prove you’re not a threat if you are a threat.