December 2, 2009

San Bernardino Sheriff Announces New Way to Track Sex Offenders

More nonsense and misleading information. Watch how they use a "truthful statement" (failing to show the conditions under which the truth was established), and apply the "truthful statement" to conditions which would invalidate the statement. This is trickery personified. Finally, notice the absence of PREVENTION techniques and the HYPE on TRACKING former offenders, naturally, the vendor sells a TRACKING program, not a PREVENTION program. Tracking has never stopped a crime from being committed.

12-2-2009 California:

SAN BERNARDINO - Authorities with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department demonstrated how their residents can use the "Offender Watch" program. They say the website is a faster way to track sex offenders. It takes 7 to 10 days to update the Megan's law website, not the case for offender watch.

"When an officer comes into register and the registration clerk enters in his information and clicks submit that info is completely accurate," says Jim Black, Program Coordinator for the Crimes against Children Unit of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

Residents can enter in an address and the site will show a list of sexual offenders within a two mile radius. Nationwide 80 percent of addresses have at least one sex offender within a mile. More than half of sexual assaults happen within a mile of the victims home.

Yes, that is absolutely true, but those sexual assaults were committed by persons known to the victim, persons involved in their daily life. Here the vendor wants you to believe that, those sexual assaults are committed by known sex offenders living within a mile of an address entered into the OffenderWatch program, and that is how folks are mislead!

Resident's can sign up for email alerts warning when an offender moves within their home and track specific offenders. It also shows offenders who aren't complying with the Department of Justice requirement. The sheriff's department wants people to call them if they find out of compliance sex offenders in their neighborhood.

"He maybe out of compliance and may have a warrant for his arrest so if someone calls us we can then ... We can go arrest him an make sure he's back in compliance," says Black.

The nationwide program is in nearly a thousand law enforcement agencies, 30 in California. Desert Hot Springs started using the same program earlier this year. No word if any other city in Riverside County is using the program. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department expects every police department in the county to be on the site within the next 6 months. And they say tracking down potentially dangerous is a work in progress.

Real problem here, 95% of new sex offenses, are committed by persons NOT ON THE REGISTRY. i.e., new offenders. The problem here is, police are wasting their time following former offenders of which only 3.5% of them ever re-offend, they don't have time to watch for NEW OFFENDERS.
And they get paid for this!
"Technology is really a key component of the effort to protect children and families against potential predators," say Brad Mitzelfelt, First District Supervisor. ..Source.. Rodney Wardle, News Channel 3 Reporter

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