Comments on: GPS tracking of sex offenders

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:02:43 +0000

Concerned,
I understand people’s frustrations, but nobody’s hauling you to a concentration camp. Anytime any new technology comes around people start screaming about “big brother” or “work camps” and everything else. Education is the key with this new technology, it was never designed to actually stop crimes from taking place, it was designed as a tool to use in conjunction with programs already in place to tackle recidivism rates. If someone’s hell bent on hurting someone no piece of technology is going to stop them, but it will be helpful as an early warning system and the data collected can be used in a court of law. It’s better than a simple piece of paper or monthly check-ins, but it’s not the end all to be all.

By: concerned

concerned — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:45:13 +0000

I think that eventually we are going to head into concentration camps and our babies once born are going to be placed with gps tracking chips and yes monitoring of sex offenders is a good idea but at what cost does it deter them from commiting a crime? will the victim of that crime be unhurt? NO because after the fact is when the offender gets caught and what about those offenders who do what they are supposed to and have been compliant I mean they have polygraphs and registration and now GPS tracking!! not just that some of these offenders are homeless and if the battery goes dead what happens a violation and back to jail for more tax dollars at work this is rediculous and should be put back into the test phase and just train our law enforcement to do thier jobs better and locate these predators more often than every 90 days prior to GPS

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Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:33:41 +0000

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