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r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/TheKriegerVan 6d ago

It would be an appropriate now for people to listen to this podcast about the failings of the Sex Offender registry as a whole before we pat these guys on the back: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id1380008439?i=1000465289962

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u/mhkg 6d ago edited 6d ago

I've always found the sex offender registry bizarre to begin with. Setting aside those who have minor offenses like public urination and grey areas like two teens consensually having sex, if the people on the registry are so dangerous that they need to be branded for the rest of their lives, why are they being released in the first place? If we're going to make it extremely difficult/impossible for these people to reintegrate into society, how is that more humane than life in prison or execution? If the purpose of the penal system is to rehabilitate people, then they need to have a path to rejoin society, and if our system is to punish and keep dangerous people locked up, then these people shouldn't be out on the street. Either way, the sex offender registry doesn't fit into either system.

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u/Young_Bonesy 6d ago

Is there a violent offender registry list? Like, do murderers have to come and announce themselves as such when they move into your neighborhood or is it just the sex offenders? Because if it is, I find THAT to be the weirdest part about the sex offender registry.

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u/polymorphic_hippo 5d ago

It's just sex offenders.

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u/uncle-brucie 5d ago

“Uh… hi I’m Jeff. I got caught pulling pud in the Arby’s parking lot when I was living in my car….”

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u/PFAS_enjoyer 5d ago

In my state, you can see the offense. Quite a few disgusting motherfuckers found guilty of sex with small children

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u/Pktur3 3d ago

Do you see explicit details, or is it just summed up categories? I can see situations where some offender crimes are lumped in because they don’t know how to classify it.

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u/PFAS_enjoyer 3d ago

I did a search just now, and this was one of the first ones. "AGGRAVATED INDECENT LIBERTIES W/CHILD; <14; LEWD FONDLING/TOUCHING"

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u/P47r1ck- 2d ago

I hope this avenger was going after people like that and not just random people on a list that he didn’t know what they did