Oklahoma Sex Offenders
As old as I am, I guess I am still an innocent when it comes to some aspects of human behaviour. My experience with finding sex offenders started when someone at a playground mentioned that a registered sex offender lived next door to them. They had found out when a police visit to the resident lead to his neighbors being questioned about him. What made them nervous was that he had been there for five months.
Until the police made a housecall they had no idea that he was a potential problem. It turns out that he had repeated his offenses on another vulnerable person and was subsequently jailed again. So these people were lucky that a predator had been removed from their neighborhood.
After hearing their story I decided to look at my own neighborhood but was thinking that I wouldn't find anyone I wasn't aware of already. Boy, was I wrong! There were over a dozen that I had never seen in our local newspaper. The reason was simple.
These criminals had committed their crimes in other areas and then moved to my neighborhood after their convictions. The ones that I found were the ones that had followed the law and registered with the local police. The state of Oklahoma says that over 14% of the people convicted do not register and some states (like Nevada) report much higher lost criminals.
Even a state with a low population density (like Oklahoma) has over 6000 registered sex offenders and a list of over 850 missing sex offenders.
This is why we started the notification service for people who want to know when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood. No one bothers to keep up with the sex offenders who move around. The police may know but they are not going to tell you unless they want to know something.
This situation was brought to mind this week for me because in my local newspaper there were two different people found guilty of not registering as sex offenders with the local police. I live in Leflore County, Oklahoma. It's a small county with a low population and we had two criminals hiding here. I wonder what it would be like for an area like Tulsa that has over a thousand registered sex offenders.
If you are interested in keeping your loved ones safe you can find out from us who is moving into your neighborhood. Our service is free and it will take you just a few minutes to get the information. Here's the website: http://www.Be-warned.net
Until the police made a housecall they had no idea that he was a potential problem. It turns out that he had repeated his offenses on another vulnerable person and was subsequently jailed again. So these people were lucky that a predator had been removed from their neighborhood.
After hearing their story I decided to look at my own neighborhood but was thinking that I wouldn't find anyone I wasn't aware of already. Boy, was I wrong! There were over a dozen that I had never seen in our local newspaper. The reason was simple.
These criminals had committed their crimes in other areas and then moved to my neighborhood after their convictions. The ones that I found were the ones that had followed the law and registered with the local police. The state of Oklahoma says that over 14% of the people convicted do not register and some states (like Nevada) report much higher lost criminals.
Even a state with a low population density (like Oklahoma) has over 6000 registered sex offenders and a list of over 850 missing sex offenders.
This is why we started the notification service for people who want to know when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood. No one bothers to keep up with the sex offenders who move around. The police may know but they are not going to tell you unless they want to know something.
This situation was brought to mind this week for me because in my local newspaper there were two different people found guilty of not registering as sex offenders with the local police. I live in Leflore County, Oklahoma. It's a small county with a low population and we had two criminals hiding here. I wonder what it would be like for an area like Tulsa that has over a thousand registered sex offenders.
If you are interested in keeping your loved ones safe you can find out from us who is moving into your neighborhood. Our service is free and it will take you just a few minutes to get the information. Here's the website: http://www.Be-warned.net
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