You are 100 % correct......its called NIMBY..."not in my backyard" I have been in this fight long enough to know, reactions like his does nothing to solve the problems.....originally I supported his efforts when the proposal was to LIMIT.......now he is pissin in the wind so to speak.
http://www.petitiononline.com/restrict/petition.html
To date there is no limit to the amount of sexual offender/predators that can establish residence in any given zip code. In lower income or high rental areas this places a disproportionate amount of offenders in ratio to the surrounding communities. This lowers property values, puts a burden on police and corrections resources but most of all exposes our families and children to an unfair amount of convicted sexual offenders in any given area. I propose the cities have a right to limit the amount of convicted sexual offenders and predators that can establish residence to make these neighborhoods safer. If city officials had the guts to enforce this, the state would have to stand back and take a good long hard look at sentencing, interstate compact laws, incarceration, probation and deportation guidelines. If the citizens can’t get the justice they deserve from our elected officials in Tallahassee, maybe we should demand it from our local officials. Lots of advertising is done in this country on behalf of the welfare of the children. But when judges and attorneys are using the judicial system as a revolving door and throwing these offenders back in our neighborhoods, you have to wonder how safe they really want our children to be. I am begging someone to look at the big picture here. We are passing legislation in our country on knee-jerk reactions. Sex offenders are not going away, in fact with our classification system you will see more and more which is straining the budget of all our enforcement agencies.
Fabs always takes offense to the one sentence, I probably will have to rewrite it....