Again we see a lawmaker proposing a registry of a crime type that has the lowest recidivism rate of all crime types, and knowing the damage which the sex offender registry causes those registrants, now wants to inflict the same damage on those past offenders convicted of murders. Lawmakers have found a way, inflicted with perverted words, to after-the-fact cause further damage to past offenders who now are living according to law in communities.1-26-2011 Illinois:
Database would track killers convicted before truth-in-sentencing law
Motivated by outrage over the 1998 murder of a Batavia woman, a state representative on Tuesday proposed creating a public database of convicted murderers.
Rep. Dennis Reboletti, R-Elmhurst, filed a bill known as "Andrea's Law," which calls for the Illinois State Police to create a murderer registry database on the Internet of individuals convicted of first-degree murder before truth-in-sentencing requirements were imposed.
The bill is named for Andrea Will, 18, who was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, Justin Boulay, while they were students at Eastern Illinois University.
Boulay was sentenced to 24 years in prison. Under sentencing laws at the time, he had one day removed from his punishment for every day he served without disciplinary problems. Boulay, now 33, was released in November and moved to Hawaii to live with a woman he married while incarcerated.
The proposed murderer registry "is a natural extension to the state's current sex offender and child murderer registry," Reboletti said in a prepared statement.
The law would apply to convicted murderers who committed the crime before June 19, 1998. It would require them to be registered for 10 years after their parole, a Reboletti spokeswoman said. ..Source.. by Ted Gregory
5 comments:
Go ahead and water down these registries even more then they already are. The more people they add, the less effective it will be. Do these lawmakers have something to hide? I wonder....
I'm all for this new registry. I gives the opportunity to put ALL murderers on the database. That means there has to be a provision to place ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS on this database when they kill another human.
Contrary to popular belief (or belief in the main stream media stories you listen to), many of these so called "Good Shoot's" in the line of duty is nothing more that the brotherhood of cops covering for the murder of another human being.
I remember the days when society called these brave men "Peace Officers". Now days they are known as "Law Enforcement Officers".
Don't tell me we don't live in a POLICE STATE!
Maybe a registry for drug dealers. One for thieves. Juvenile delinquents. YES, A REGISTRY FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER BEEN ARRESTED!!!!
Registries are useless, and just serve to further punish and humiliate people.
the registry has been totally abused ...just go ahead and throw anyone on there,,,makes it easy, and more than half have no reason to be,,it disgusts me and yes it hits home, just an easy way for the system to say,.,,.here's another one, start taking a good look all of you and stop ruining lives...
Actually, these registeries server a very important purpose, for the politician. It gives them a list of names that they can wave in front of the sheep they represent and say; "Look, these are all the bad people I'm protecting you from. Look how many of them there are. Am I not doing a good job? Re-elect me."
Registries are political re-election tools. The larger they are, the better they look to the sheep. And unless we find a way to wake the sheep up, they're going to continue to exist, and grow, and expand to cover other crimes.
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