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Post by Trusty on Mar 1, 2008 18:58:31 GMT -5
When you visit THIS SITE you can enter your address. A map will pop up with YOUR house as a small icon of a house showing a box in YOUR town. There may be red, blue and green dots surrounding your entire neighborhood. When you click on these dots a picture of a criminal will appear with his or her home address and the description of the crime he or she has committed. You can click on his detail, convictions, etc. The best thing is that you can s how your children these pictures and see how close these people live to your home or school.
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Post by Gracie on Mar 1, 2008 22:10:48 GMT -5
Dear God, Trusty....
There are 33 here...some less than a half-mile from my house. And there are 11 with non-mappable offenses. And there are two within a quarter-mile of my daughter's elementary school.
And as the ex-wife of an MP...I know too well that there could certainly be others who have just not been caught...or reported.
My little 'Mayberry' doesn't seem so idyllic, looking at this chart. I will definitely be more careful--we haven't always locked doors and windows and all that, never felt the need to.
Gracie is too trusting, 'tis true. Dammit.
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Post by slb2 on Mar 2, 2008 10:03:05 GMT -5
I did this. The closest offenders are over 4 miles from my house. The first five that I found were all African American, leading me to think there was a bias to the whole site. I happen to know that there is a sexual predator who is white who lives a mile south of me.
Dunno how much stock to put in it.
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