How many are near you?

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

What exactly is making you mad? Assuming you're not going to execute them, they're going to have to live somewhere. In most communities this sort of information has been available for quite some time to anyone who wanted it.

I can picture the OP going all Boondock Saints on all the local sex offenders, except they'd all be overweight late middle aged men, so he'd be the least badass Boondock Saint ever.

 

[amerikajinda]

84 in my neck of the woods...

 

[LanAltec]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

What exactly is making you mad? Assuming you're not going to execute them, they're going to have to live somewhere. In most communities this sort of information has been available for quite some time to anyone who wanted it.

I understand they are people and need a place to live just like everyone else. What I'm upset about is that this information isn't more widespread. I didn't know about this site or even concider looking up this kind of info until a friend sent me this site.

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by LanAltec

I understand they are people and need a place to live just like everyone else. What I'm upset about is that this information isn't more widespread. I didn't know about this site or even concider looking up this kind of info until a friend sent me this site.

Most people these days are already about as paranoid as you can practically be about stuff like this.

 

[jett]

Originally Posted by tiger02

Not this guy. Yipes.

Frist really looks like **** these days.

 

[Southern-Nupe]

Originally Posted by LanAltec

I found this website that tells you how many sex offenders live near you. I put in my address, naturally thinking there might be one or two around me. It came back with 160!!!! I live in a pretty nice neighborhood so this was pretty shocking to me.

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

How many are near you? I bet you'll be surprised

You got remember that it probably doesn't matter how nice your neighborhood is, sex offenders don't discriminate by wealth. Consequently, there were none in my subdivision, but more than enough in the surrounding areas. The scariest part about all this, is that there are probably still some that have yet to be reported.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by LanAltec

I understand they are people and need a place to live just like everyone else. What I'm upset about is that this information isn't more widespread. I didn't know about this site or even concider looking up this kind of info until a friend sent me this site.

That's why I asked. I guess I was surprised because I thought most people knew that such information is available. But the degree of awareness may vary by community, and I may be particularly tuned in to such things as the parent of a young child (don't know if you're a parent or not).

 

[LanAltec]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

Most people these days are already about as paranoid as you can practically be about stuff like this.

I know... and I would blame the "To catch a predator" show for that. They bring those people in to interview them, but like 95% of them are released. They actually caught one guy twice.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Southern-Nupe

You got remember that it probably doesn't matter how nice your neighborhood is, sex offenders don't discriminate by wealth. Consequently, there were none in my subdivision, but more than enough in the surrounding areas. The scariest part about all this, is that there are probably still some that have yet to be reported.

I'm no expert, but I'd guess that you see higher concentrations in less expensive neighborhoods, as convicted criminals are, on average, presumably going to be less financially well-off and more itinerant than the general population.

 

[amerikajinda]

whoah... 1,015 near my office... I'm surrounded by perverts!

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by Southern-Nupe

You got remember that it probably doesn't matter how nice your neighborhood is, sex offenders don't discriminate by wealth. Consequently, there were none in my subdivision, but more than enough in the surrounding areas. The scariest part about all this, is that there are probably still some that have yet to be reported.

I would say that statistically, significantly more sex offenders probably live in lower-income neighborhoods because it's hard to get as high paying a job when you're a convicted criminal.

EDIT: Goddammit lawyerdad

 

[Joel_Cairo]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

I would say that statistically, significantly more sex offenders probably live in lower-income neighborhoods because it's hard to get as high paying a job when you're a convicted criminal.

EDIT: Goddammit lawyerdad

also you have to factor in all the years they spent out of the workforce. They start at the bottom of the ladder wherever they work, unless its a license-plate factory.

 

[Southern-Nupe]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

I would say that statistically, significantly more sex offenders probably live in lower-income neighborhoods because it's hard to get as high paying a job when you're a convicted criminal.

EDIT: Goddammit lawyerdad
Good point. I didn't take that into account.

 

[LanAltec]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

That's why I asked. I guess I was surprised because I thought most people knew that such information is available. But the degree of awareness may vary by community, and I may be particularly tuned in to such things as the parent of a young child (don't know if you're a parent or not).

No, I'm not a parent, but when thinking about this issue I get concerned about people like my little sister (14). Your right, as a young adult this kind of thing is not always on my mind, which is why I was so shocked to see the results (my ignorance was assuming there wouldn't be so many sex offenders). I realize that their is not much you can do besides knowing these people are out their and educatiing others of ways to keep kids safer.

 

[Chadley]

I put in my address and got 1160 offenders. Not a surprise as we get a new notification of a sex offender every couple weeks. Oh, off-campus student housing.

To be fair, once I zoom in to include solely student-housing, I get 335 offenders. Most of them seem concentrated in certain appartment buildings.