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Program Uses GPS To Track Sex Offenders

Posted by samzenpus on from the where-do-you-think-you're-going dept.

43 sex offenders in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County are wearing GPS monitoring devices as part of a pilot program designed to keep track of their movements. If the offender moves into an "exclusion zone," police are called. “Exclusion zones for example [are] schools, daycares, playgrounds, facilities where children congregate for those sex offenders,” John Hudson, a security consultant, said. “We’ve identified in their red zones. If an offender with a device goes into one of the red zones, an exclusion zone, we’ll be notified immediately.”

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  1. Re:WTF by spun · · Score: 4, Informative

    So, what do you suggest we do, keep dangerous sex offenders in prison forever? How is that any less cruel than letting them go free, but keeping them away from situations likely to trigger their disease? It's more expensive, as well.

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  2. I retract my earlier statement by spun · · Score: 5, Informative

    It appears you are entirely correct. I had always heard that high recidivism was the reason we treated sex offenders differently. Turns out that sex offenders have a lower recidivism rate than any other class of crime except murder. So why do we treat them differently?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender#Recidivism_rates

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  3. Sex offenders have LOW recidivism rates by ClioCJS · · Score: 4, Informative
    Stop spreading bullshit. The rate is 5 percent. According to the Office of Justice Programs of the United States Department of Justice, in New York State the recidivism rates for sex offenders have been shown to be lower than any other crime except murder. Another report from the OJP that studied recidivism of prisoners released in 1994 in 15 states accounting for two-thirds of all prisoners released in the United States that year,[4] reached the same conclusion. Read some facts yourself, then verify them with google.

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  4. Re:Sounds good but.. by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 4, Informative

    We're halfway there:

    http://www.aclufl.org/tuttle/

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  5. Re:Sad by mldi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because child molesters and rapists with amazingly high recidivism rates don't deserve the stigma at all. I'm sure you'd be comfortable hiring one to be a babysitter if that's your view.

    False. Try ~5%. That's nothing compared to other crimes. Read this.

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