Given there is zero reason to have U.S. Marshals doing this, my guess is they are trying to justify their existence, esp. with crime being down nationally.10-30-2010 New Jersey:
A squad of armed officers got a jump on Halloween this week, sweeping up more than a dozen unregistered sex offenders in North Jersey during “Operation Trick No Treat.”
It was the first time out of the box for a new unit, the Sex Offender Investigations Branch of the U.S. Marshals Service. And it began with 61 case files of people convicted of raping, molesting or fondling minors or adults.
Of the sixty-one cases, an administrative ‘filtering process’ closed 24 cases: The offenders were either dead, locked up or in the hands of other jurisdictions.
"...or in the hands of other jurisdictions." In other words, they had legally moved and for unmentioned reasons, the records were not updated by the police, which lead to them being listed as non-compliant. The failure of registering agencies, or computer programming, cost taxpayers.The squad then tracked down the 37 others, completing 235 early-morning compliance checks, leading to 14 arrests.
14 arrests, that means 5.9% of their registrants were out of compliance. That number keeps coming up no matter whether it is compliance or recidivism.All were charged with failing to register and/or failure to verify address change, under Megan‘s Law.
In addition to the arrests, the Marshals Service said, “leads were developed and forwarded to other agencies for enforcement.”
Forty officers in all participated -- from agencies that included the Hudson, Passaic and Morris county prosecutor’s offices, Port Authority police, the state Corrections Department, and Paterson and Newark police, among others.
The unit’s mission is to protect the public from sex offenders and offenders against children by assisting jurisdictions in locating and apprehending sex offenders who violate sex offender registration requirements. ..Source.. CliffviewPiolet.com
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