Too sad!

Reminds me of 9/11....

* Terrible thing happened (terrorist attacks..)
* Politicians reacted creating Homeland Defense.
* Took away many of our constitutional rights of privacy. (NSA mass data collection without warrants.)
* Created the TSA to screen air passengers. (ineffectively.)
* Industries built and sold expensive screening machines for airports, fake portable cell towers to track suspected terrorist without warrants.)

Yet not ONE terrorist attack has been detected and over 95% of attempts to smuggle fake bombs onto planes were successful.

This is a *must* read!

I have said this many times - being about the money is the only explanation for the refusal to acknowledge empirical evidence over and over ... I am not a financier but it has always been the only thing that makes sense to me ....

The link between the sex offender registry, all its restrictions, and money is not only complex, but complicated.

Here is what I have seen over the years----

Yes, because of the registry income is generated for certain groups of people-----polygraphers, POs, GPS companies, etc.; there is no doubt that their income is increased---and they profit---- because of the registry. More clients in the form of registrants mean more income for these people.

But the creation and purpose of the sex offender registry was not so a bunch of people can make money or turn a profit from it. Nobody sat around one day and thought to himself, "Gee, a registry could possibly generate a lot of money or income for certain people, so we need to create one."

Trust me, that did not happen.

IOW, while many people do indeed profit from the registry and the registrants, a profit motive was not why it was established nor is the government profiting by the existence of the sex offender registry. Certain groups profit, but not the government.

The reason the registry and all its laws continue to be a problem for folks like us----the reason the registry even exists-----is that politicians continue to pass more and more restrictive laws in an effort to look "tough on crime" and to continue to be re-elected year after year. So, there is no profit motive as far as the politicians are concerned, but a motive for them to continue to wield their power.

Having said that, the groups of people profiting from the registry have no incentive to ever want the registry abolished. GPS companies, for example, want their profits to stay in the millions rather than in the hundreds of thousands of dollars; this is only human nature.

But no, the government is not the entity profiting from the registry.

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Although REW I would not be surprised to find that the government entities do get kick-backs of some sort from many of these companies - just like they always have from the cigarette companies and drug manufacturers etc. They are and the system is so very corrupt

Advocate,

If, by government entities you mean politicians, I would agree. But I doubt the Department of Justice or the OSBI in Oklahoma------Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation-----or the FBI or Homeland Security receives kickbacks from these companies.

The bad guys here and the true villains are the politicians.

But who knows; nothing surprises me anymore.

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Most often than not somebody will think of something good whether it's an invention, idea, etc and while it's well intentioned sooner or later someone will come along and turn it around for something bad.

Rew is right again, nobody sits around a table with ill intentioned ideas.

Building off what Rew said, it's the politicians who are capitalizing on the fear of the general public. The registry is built and continues to stand because of laws named after Jacob, Megan, Jessica and Adam. Fear not money is what drives the registry. If you got rid of all the washington's, Lincoln's, Jackson's and franklin's, the registry is still here because it was built on fear not money.

Perhaps the biggest profiteer in the whole sex offender hysteria is the news media. How often do credulous reporters give grandstanding politicians a platform to beat their chests about how they're "tough on crime" without question. Media outlets - even supposedly reputable "mainstream" news organizations - quickly race to provide details on the most salacious stories in an effort to attract readers, viewers, and advertisers.

Joe you are completely and 100% correct. News media drives fear into the public. I believe it has to do with human psychology. There is a phrase in the news, "if it bleeds, it leads". For whatever reason this stuff continues to draw in viewers. So I think they are giving the public what we want and that is what has made us so afraid of everything. I don't think there is a gigantic conspiracy or anything like that it's just naturally occurring from human psychology and the business side of the media trying to get ratings and yet more advertising dollars. Then politicians see that fear and capitalize on it, that's where you get, "if it only saves one child!"

"If it bleeds it leads," and "sex sells."

Are there dangerous sex offenders living in your neighborhood? We'll tell you after these commercial messages.

Exactly, the media is definitely the main culprit when it comes to generating fear. Politicians are the main culprit when it comes to capitalizing on that fear for their own personal gain.

I'm not saying there aren't people who make money off the registry or individual government entities that make money off the registry. The government as a whole loses money on prison and the registry, our economy loses in the long run, and really tax payers take the brunt of it ok the chin. The registry is simply not the main cog in the wheel of the registry, fear is.

The whole sex offender registry will come crashing down when registrants figure out a way to make money off the system.

Wow, Joe! That's an intriguing idea! Hmmm...scratching head...