tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post7324986032599142262..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Residency restrictions on sex offenders in Amarillo facing fact-based backlashGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-17095213723097609022012-03-28T10:21:55.517-05:002012-03-28T10:21:55.517-05:00I hope that your husband wouldn't be covered u...I hope that your husband wouldn't be covered under those residency restrictions(for some sex offenders) that were being considered in Amarillo. Juvenile records should be closed to all but police unless adult convictions are added. I wonder, too, whether Amarillo did pass the residency restrictions after all the evidence that they were useless?Arachne646https://www.blogger.com/profile/14855631604555443584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-44712665127990191492012-03-27T16:56:28.464-05:002012-03-27T16:56:28.464-05:00So what is the law in San Antonio regarding restri...So what is the law in San Antonio regarding restrictions ? Where can sex offenders live ? Or not live ? My husband will be moving to SA, and was sentenced as a sex offender as a juvenile ..... I'm so confused ??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-83410345635382731842012-02-14T15:26:06.719-06:002012-02-14T15:26:06.719-06:009:43
Either put up or shut up. A facebook page is...9:43<br /><br />Either put up or shut up. A facebook page is not evidence. Do you have hard data? Then show it. If not, then all you have is a smear campaign. Allegations mean nothing unless they are backed up with proof.<br /><br />While you at it, stop hiding behind the anonymous tag. If you have evidence, you will have to show yourself in court if you plan to present it, so you might as well start practicing standing in the daylight now.<br /><br />****<br />Regarding the original topic: What weight has been given to the public perception of safety provided by the "usual" restrictions? While it's great to see government officials trying to do things intelligently, will there be a public backlash at the "soft on perverts" city commissioners that will undo their work?Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-60694675146727121502012-02-13T08:05:17.656-06:002012-02-13T08:05:17.656-06:00Hmmmm BarkGrowlBite....you know what they say....t...Hmmmm BarkGrowlBite....you know what they say....those who protest the loudest often have something to hide. And...where do you get YOUR figures from? I know of two former police officers in Collin County alone that are now registered sex offenders..and both of them committed their crimes while on the force. If you do the math, that is far, far, far away from your "99.99%" figure. hmmmmmmmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58452078669979061642012-02-12T23:52:59.225-06:002012-02-12T23:52:59.225-06:00Sex offenders? We're just talking about Romeos...Sex offenders? We're just talking about Romeos and Juliets, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5112928536549717722012-02-10T18:54:49.482-06:002012-02-10T18:54:49.482-06:00BGB, facts speak for themselves. And we've det...BGB, facts speak for themselves. And we've determined that the vast majority of cops who cry foul regarding our Facebook pages are trying to deflect attention away from themselves. <br /><br />Let me put it in language you can understand: There's room for you on our wall if you are ever caught...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-47011318118613133672012-02-10T13:03:41.542-06:002012-02-10T13:03:41.542-06:009:43, your hatred of the police and that of your i...9:43, your hatred of the police and that of your ilk knows no bounds. While there have been cops convicted of child sex crimes, 99.99 percent of the several hundred thousand cops in the U.S. would never consider committing a sex crime against a child, your bogus 'documentation' notwithstanding. <br /><br />Let me put it in language that you can understand: You are a no good fucking liar!BarkGrowlBitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830589594331819236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-2459979854852158292012-02-10T10:03:54.011-06:002012-02-10T10:03:54.011-06:00Sexual assault has been proven for decades by psyc...Sexual assault has been proven for decades by psychiatrists all over the world as not being related to sex but rather power and control. Who amongst us desire power and control more than others? Remember, we only document cases of officer-involved child sex crimes, if we documented ALL officer-involved sex crimes, the list would be 10X as big as it is, and also require us to hire a full-time staff to monitor the reports.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-33321035695572932772012-02-09T21:09:30.407-06:002012-02-09T21:09:30.407-06:00well 9:43 i'm going to have to agree with Pris...well 9:43 i'm going to have to agree with Prison Doc and A Texas PO.<br /><br />Those statements of yours are about as far out there as the continual criminal stupidity that comes out about sex offenders!<br /><br />Yes we all know law enforcment have comitted sex crimes. So has EVERY OTHER profession and faction on the planet. I have never seen anyting ANYWHERE to say they do it more or less than any other.<br /><br />personaly i think it's more of the same thing with sex offenders.<br /><br />Having a headline "cop involved in sex crime" sells just as many if not MORE newspapers or tv adds as<br /><br />"sexual attack on a child"<br /><br />never mind it's only 1 out of a million crimes.rodsmithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-75641607649150378632012-02-09T14:49:52.137-06:002012-02-09T14:49:52.137-06:00Our Facebook page has links to the actual media si...Our Facebook page has links to the actual media sites where the stories originate. The media gets their information straight from the courts. It's as close to actual documentation that you can get. Everyone tries to downplay this issue including the media. They hide these stories and unless you find them within an hour of them first being published or use specific search terms, you'll never hear about them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-6661608031111078912012-02-09T14:15:55.142-06:002012-02-09T14:15:55.142-06:00I would call your facebook page a "listing of...I would call your facebook page a "listing of allegations" rather than a documentation of convictions...but be that as it may, the reputation of law enforcement officers isn't the topic here, and most folks on this site aren't big fans of law enforcement anyway.<br /><br />The residency restrictions are silly, just like "drug free zones" and "gun free zones", which are not really established to benefit the public welfare, but rather to enhance charging and punishment....all of which just leads to more people unnecessarily locked up, and unable to find jobs or housing upon release.<br /><br />Unless we adopt the death penalty for all of them, there has to be a much better answer....Prison Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03651611135066437902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86796333995299791862012-02-09T13:43:01.182-06:002012-02-09T13:43:01.182-06:00We are the ONLY organization in the country that c...We are the ONLY organization in the country that compiles statistics on law enforcement officers who commit sex crimes. Did you expect the FBI to do it and publish their findings on their Uniform Crime Database? Not a chance. They try and keep the incidents quiet just like the media does. And we exposing this on out Facebook wall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-20335693128860075592012-02-09T13:40:14.769-06:002012-02-09T13:40:14.769-06:00Take a few hours and peruse our wall where we have...Take a few hours and peruse our wall where we have documented thousands of cases from all over the nation:<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tribute-to-survivors-of-child-sexual-assault-by-law-enforcement-officers/180584842010594?sk=wallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58013458778134252132012-02-09T10:58:04.028-06:002012-02-09T10:58:04.028-06:009:43- that sounds like an outlandish statement reg...9:43- that sounds like an outlandish statement regarding law enforcement. I haven't found any information to support your claim. Do you have any links to studies to verify that? I'm interested in seeing what research has to say about that.A Texas POhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05675916968621862855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-54420683694829066232012-02-09T10:53:43.224-06:002012-02-09T10:53:43.224-06:00I've heard that in some communities, RSO's...I've heard that in some communities, RSO's are "ghettoized" into the only housing that meets the requirements of the local laws, zoning out just about everywhere in town for one reason or another. One or two cheap motels are the only housing that meet the requirements. For those that are in treatment and taking it seriously, this can be a really poor predictor of success. Contrary to popular perception, sex offenders have a lower rate of recidivism than many other crimes like burglary, and not all RSO's are pedophiles, or even rapists.Arachne646https://www.blogger.com/profile/14855631604555443584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-90300750700271081752012-02-09T09:43:58.667-06:002012-02-09T09:43:58.667-06:00The truth is more police officers are convicted of...The truth is more police officers are convicted of child sex crimes than all other professions combined. It's law enforcement's "dirty little secret", and one we are committed to exposing. Police officers use their positions of trust to violate our children. Their victims are threatened with physical harm and told no one will believe their word over that of a police officer. Please visit our Facebook pages to learn more about this insidious epidemic that is plaguing every police department in the entire country, then warn everyone you know to watch their children closely, and never leave them alone with a law enforcement officer; http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tribute-to-survivors-of-child-sexual-assault-by-law-enforcement-officers/180584842010594?sk=wallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-37510273204835390202012-02-09T09:10:13.877-06:002012-02-09T09:10:13.877-06:00I currently live in a city that has such a restric...I currently live in a city that has such a restriction, and it makes me shake my head when a child is molested and the community gets outraged. After all, we have a restriction in place that should have stopped this from happening, correct? Of course, these types of restrictions get shoved down our throats because they're politically "sexy." Thank goodness there are brighter minds playing the game in Amarillo.A Texas POhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05675916968621862855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-63866879223399336602012-02-09T08:47:52.632-06:002012-02-09T08:47:52.632-06:00RSO wife: AMENRSO wife: AMENTexas Mavericknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-11752081588285236242012-02-09T07:24:13.666-06:002012-02-09T07:24:13.666-06:00Hurray for the commissioner who was against those ...Hurray for the commissioner who was against those residency restrictions!<br /><br />Residency restrictions will not make children safer. They only serve to keep families from living in decent housing, RSO's from getting decent jobs, and make the media and politicians look good come election time.<br /><br />An Oprah program that aired in January 2010, says that 90% of all children who are molested are molested by someone they know and trust, not by strangers. That information has not changed in the 2 years since that program aired. There are other statistics out there to support that same view. <br /><br />How will residency restrictions keep a child safe from a family member, a teacher, a member of the clergy or a volunteer leader? If you want to keep your children safe, teach them what behavior is inappropriate from people they know. Teach them that while the majority of adults they know and trust are really trustworthy, some are not and how to differentiate between the two. And let them know that they can tell you anything. Most molesters threaten the child that something bad will happen to them or someone they love if they tell.<br /><br />The only thing residency restrictions do is make the general public FEEL safer and make the politicians that push them through seem "tough on crime". And while you do see on the news the teachers or youth ministers that are arrested for molesting a student, the news media keeps stressing "stranger danger". Do they not watch their own broadcasts?<br /><br />I can only believe that misinformed politicians and media, or ones who choose to ignore the facts to push through their own agendas, are to blame for the mass hysteria that tries to legislate residency restrictions. And the general public behaves like sheep and believes everything they see on the news without getting any facts on their own.RSO wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125370082588943280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-87823852908569661642012-02-09T07:02:58.117-06:002012-02-09T07:02:58.117-06:00The Commissioners' Court was wise to investiga...The Commissioners' Court was wise to investigate the truth of residency restrictions. Facts show restrictions do NOT provide greater safety for children. Thank you for this mature rather than emotional decision.wluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06789112318762116307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-83700032068223668522012-02-08T13:23:17.395-06:002012-02-08T13:23:17.395-06:00Then we need to get one more commissioner to look ...Then we need to get one more commissioner to look at the facts in a non-political way. This has been tried and has failed in many areas. Amarillo would do well to learn from the mistakes of others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com