Perhaps. I just read it again, and I still can't put together the meaning, even trying to read less-than-literally. It reads just like a comment from SubredditSimulator.
The comment is in reply to one talking about police monitoring the victims of crime who might be more likely to take revenge. The police then catch those victims (now perpetrators) of crime.
> Exactly and as having been in the wrong place at the wrong time this rankles and I did have at the time dissuade my one of my coworkers from "accidentally" putting the perp on the kiddie fiddlers regsister.
I've been a victim of crime - I was in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
It rankles - I wanted revenge.
At the time I dissuaded a colleague from deliberately putting the name perpetrator of the crime on the sex offender register.