[mango23]

Not feeling like doing any work today I am sitting in my office playing on the computer. While looking up a small town on google I noticed the sex offender list for the city so I took a look. What I found was shocking. This is a sex offender link on City-data by the way. The town I was looking at has a population of 900. The sex offender list had 34 offenders living there. That is one in 26 residence are sex offenders. When you subtract the women since there were non on the list the number went to 1 in 14. In other words 1 of every 14 men in that town are sex offenders.

I started selecting small towns at random and kept coming up with the same thing although most not that bad. But 1 in 30 or so was common. When I started doing the big towns like Miami or Fort Lauderdale it was not even close. It jumped to 1 in thousands. This is interesting. You move to what you think is a quit small area and you are statically exposed to many times more offenders then in the big towns that seem so ominous.

I looked up one of the most conservative and religious towns and it was one of the worst. Are people fooling themselves thinking they are running away for this by getting out of the bigger towns? It may also be they don't have a lot of the strict laws for offenders as say Miami, and the offenders gravitate to these towns? I just found this interesting.


Keystone Heights for example, 1 in 45, subtract the women and almost 5% of the men in town are sex offenders.

Crestview 1 in 230 and subtract the women and almost 1% of the men in town are sex offenders and it goes on.

[housingcrashsurvivor]

Haven't done studies but just a quick theory. Maybe has to do with where someone is allowed to live. I looked up the reported sex offenders in Keystone and in a five mile area of Fort Lauderdale. Looks like mostly they were arrested for pedophilia. So it could be that the many more schools, playgrounds and the like in metropolitan areas around which I would imagine there could be restrictions might dislocate them to places where there are not so many children's facilities. Again, just a guess.

[matte13720]

I'm a sex offender by law, not by logic.... It has a lot to do with where we can live and registration laws. I register every six months but if I lived inside of Palm bay city limits then i would have to register every 90 days; cities and counties can make their own rules as well. In Miami it is so hard that a bunch of offenders were living under a bridge.... Now they really don't have a stated address, they can just wonder around...Scary, even to me.

[mango23]

Originally Posted by matte13720

I'm a sex offender by law, not by logic.... It has a lot to do with where we can live and registration laws. I register every six months but if I lived inside of Palm bay city limits then i would have to register every 90 days; cities and counties can make their own rules as well. In Miami it is so hard that a bunch of offenders were living under a bridge.... Now they really don't have a stated address, they can just wonder around...Scary, even to me.

So essentially some of these towns can become colonies of sex offender? I always though of say KeyStone Heights as a sort of Mayberry, now I find out it may be a dumping ground for sex offenders. What else can you think, those are the numbers.