Re:Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget
by protomyth on Thursday September 29, 2016 @04:36PM
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Of course we aren't going to get it right 100% of the time[1], but either they are rehabilitated & "served their debt to society" or they aren't. The whole sex offender list is a half-ass way to cover the bases. We need to get over ourselves and pick: they need to be incarcerated[2] or they can rejoin society. The list is incarceration on the prisoner's dime and puts them at the fringe forever.
Lumping all of these into one pot is another foolish idea with the list.
1) heck, we don't get guilty / not guilty right which is why I'm against the death penalty
2) in some form
We should recognize that we cannot always judge that correctly. So you either let people out who might still be a danger, or you keep people locked up who might not be a danger. (And, in fact, you do both - all you can do is adjust the proportions.)
But people scream really loudly if you keep people locked up who arguably are no longer a danger...