People will be talking about how unfair this "attack" is
People should be talking about how sex offender registries are counterproductive, increase recidivism and sex crimes
Because those are the facts
news.yahoo.com/in-apparent-pl…
Side note, if "sex offenders" are "hiding in the shadows" that is because of registries, not b/c of legislators trying to protect people on the registry.
Here is the evidence
Oddly enough, increasing housing and employment insecurity while making people public pariahs INCREASES recidivism
Sadly, most of the people responding will just say "it's an unfair smear" which is sad, because all legislators should oppose registries on public safety grounds
But most important, this is an example of politicos literally throwing almost a million real human beings under the wheels of the scare-tactics bus.
In a country where actual attacks on people on the registry happen, ramping up the fear around registries is deeply problematic
And notice the article doesn't even attempt to make any arguments about the unfairness of the registry or to people currently on registries across the country.
It is NOT good journalism to accept a bad premise and roll with it
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