Felons Among Us

Posted by danleone on February 15th, 2008 filed in uncategorized

Interesting website, called FelonSpy.

By typing in your address, you will be served with a potentially eye-opening, certainly frightening, map of your street with the names and address of local criminals, both convicted and accused.

There are a bunch of caveats I have for you, before you visit the site:

A. I have ABSOLUTELY no idea about the accuracy of the information. The site claims that it scours numerous databases and public records to create the list. But, I would not take this as an open invitation to lynch your neighbor.

B. This is a VERY pro-gun website. There are advertisements and images of guns, so if those images disturb you, keep it in my mind while surfing.

C. The language is a tad intense, especially on the “Remove Your Name”  category.

D. If you read the FAQ’s closely, you may be dissuaded from using the site at all. It appears that anyone can report ANYONE to be added to this site, without verification!

But I found this site helpful. There are a couple of people within a quarter mile radius of me that are convicted sex offenders. One of these people I already knew about and his name is familiar to me, so the site is at least somewhat accurate.

Question for BoMR: Is the type of information found on these types of sites (I am sure there are many more) useful to you? 

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7 Responses to “Felons Among Us”

  1. Dan Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 3:54 am

    I’m in two minds about this sort of information being available. In the UK the names and addresses of sex offenders are not published, although there are many who campaign for them to be so.

    I’m not convinced the public can be trusted with this sort of information. There was the famous incident in the UK of a paediatrician being beaten within an inch of their lives because their neighborsdidn’t know the difference between paediatrician and pedophile.

    In addition I’m not convinced of the authorities being able to keep an accurate track of these people. Just last week I came across a sex offender in the course of my work and I rang probation services as I was aware that he had recently moved from another part of the country and they may have lost track of him. They refused to take his details, stating it was the responsibility of the probation services where he came from to inform them he had moved to the area. Err… what if they don’t know he’s moved to the area?

  2. Jodi Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    Yeah I am not sure how I truly feel about such sites. One yes there is the Federal Sex offenders site, and yes it can be “useful”(I use that very loosely) to be in the Know to protect our children.
    And yet being a person who values rights, and if a person does time and completes all that they are by law to do…
    My fear isnt about violating their rights, not at all. They committed a crime and by their own choices are subject to certain criteria and loss of certain privledges. I am for that, and get that…
    It is the people of our society who would play vigilante. Take it upon themselves to “cure” the world. We had a case here in CT where a neighbor stabbed another, sue to the man’s belief one was after their child.
    Do I get that, as a parent? Yes I do. Does it mean its correct?
    Now this site? Is scary in the respect that anyone can post anything? That is just wrong, and I can see someone out for revenge against someone and then some “cowboy” decides he will take care of things and a tragedy unfolds.
    In short- sex offender list? Yes. Maintained by law enforcement.
    SHould be people take everything they read as truth? Nah do a little more research before we ostracize.

  3. Mahala Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    I live in Mayberry so, we already know who all the criminals are, who their parents are and we’re probably related to them lol.

  4. Lilacspecs Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    I live in Belgium, so no, but out of morbid curiosity I’m about to go plug my parent’s address in there.

  5. alex Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

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    Live Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) live earth is also asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw a poll on http://www.EarthLab.com that says people care a lot about what their next leader thinks of global warming. Does anyone know of another poll or other results about this subject?

    Here is the page where I saw the EarthLab poll: http://www.earthlab.com/life.aspx. This is a pretty legit website; they are endorsed by Al Gore and the alliance for climate protection and they have a carbon footprint calculator. Does anyone have a strong opinion about this like I do? No matter what your political affiliation is or who you vote for this is an important issue for our environment, our economy and for homeland security.

  6. dan Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    Wow, enviromentally friendly spammers. I suppse it’s more earth friendly than junk mail through your letterbox.

  7. Ryan Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I am freaked out about how many of the felons in my area committed sex related crimes. I guess its better to know where they are, though.

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