Comments on: The scariest of all Halloween monsters: Registered sex offenders make good political theater on spooky children’s holiday

By: reasonablereporter

reasonablereporter — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:46:56 +0000

Criminals certainly tend to minimize their crimes in the telling. On the other hand, the system, consisting of politicians, prosecutors, and law enforcement, seems to be producing a disproportionate number of registered offenders. This is not about Jerry Sandusky.

By: Kurt Hildebrand

Kurt Hildebrand — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:52:25 +0000

Maybe the best people to talk to about this isn’t necessarily the guys who are convicted of a sex crime. Having covered cops and courts for 20 years, I’ve seen some pretty horrendous sex criminals admit what they did in one breath and then try to explain it away in another, and most of them plead guilty. The judge explains that they don’t have to plead guilty, and while there’s an attorney right next to them to explain the implications of their plea, I’ve watched the judge tell them the same thing. It’s human nature for people who are convicted to make light of their crime no matter what it is. When it’s a sex crime that tendency is enhanced.

By: Robert Plumlee

Robert Plumlee — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:12:51 +0000

I am a very tolerant and forgiving person. I am also a person who spent seven years working as a Psychiatric Technician, Foresic Specialist and working primarily with a population of sex offenders.
The choice of who to protect more diligently, the sex offender or their potential victim is an easy one for me. The average Mentally Disordered Sex Offender, and they are classified as such for a good reason, has not more than a 2% chance of “being fixed”, and even the most honest among that poulation will confirm this fact. These folks need to be protected from themselves as much as others need to be protected from them.