Trolls beneath the bridge
You're a Miami councilperson, and you want to seem tough on crime, and especially on those perverts who are preying on our children. So you decree that convicted sex offenders can't live within 2,500 feet of schools, parks and other places where children might gather.
So where can they live? Under a bridge. They have to "occupy a residence" from 10PM to 6AM, and under the bridge is where the parole officer finds them. The county can't find them anywhere else to live.
I'm not sticking up for pervs or anything, but...this is inhuman. If they've "paid their debt to society", then let them live as free men. If they can't be trusted within a half-mile of a child, then lock them up. But not this.
Comments
Posted by: Jo
Posted on: April 6, 2007 06:26 PM
That's utter BS. They're going to have to do something before they start extending the same "courtesy" to other ex-cons.
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: April 6, 2007 09:45 PM
But that's how they do things back en la patria, en Cuba!
There are times that Tancredo's remark that we are a Third World city has more than a little truth, even if it was a stupid wisecrack. (If he thinks Miami is Third World, what does he think of Los Angeles?)
Except, IIRC, this was an imitation of a law they use somewhere in Iowa.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: April 10, 2007 09:16 AM
...where the nearest child is usually half a mile away anyway.