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by jaynos 3611 days ago
3000 sex offenders are on parole? I wonder how many of them are potential threats and how many are the "took a piss on a playground at midnight while drunk with no children in sight" variety.
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> potential threats

Well, since "sex crime" (to the extent that this is even a cognizable category at all) has such a low recidivism rate, it's reasonable to say that they're aren't much of a threat to begin with.

More than 90% of the perpetrators of crimes against children, including sex crimes, are personally known to those children.