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Danger on our Streets

concerned resident | 29.07.2004 08:52 | Sheffield

90 Sex offenders and high-risk criminals living on our streets


90 sex or violent ofenders were living in south yorkshire last year. All have been branded "very high risk" by the authorities. Twelve have been sent back to prison because they broke rules governing their behaviour and another has been convicted of attempting to commit another offence.

The south yorkshire public protection unit has revealed that the number of people on the sex offenders register in south yorkshire has risen to 682. 21 of those have broken the rules that govern those people who live on the sex offenders register.

The PPU regards the statistics as a success, with only one of the 90 high risk offenders going back to court for a further offence. It also believes the rising number of people on the sex offenders' register is because legislation is relatively recent, with figures yet to reach a balance.

The figres speak for themselves.

concerned resident

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tells you nothing

29.07.2004 11:16

'The figres speak for themselves'
So what do they tell you? What is the piece here for?

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encouraging vigilantism

29.07.2004 14:15

this article seems to be attempting to encourage vigilantism


In modern terms, vigilantes are secret militias or police which attempt law enforcement, in the usual phrase, "by taking the law into their own hands".

In Spanish, vigilante means 'watchman', which is how many of these groups started, where there was no organized law enforcement.



 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilantism

anenke

an opportunity arises...

29.07.2004 14:56

behind the scenes, people are arguing whether or not this should've stayed up on the newswire so here's a suggestion for future:

Can someone apply a bit of editorial in cases like this, even tho it'll take up someone's time when there's bags more stuff to do...

Proposal:

if the scary and quite probably misleading title to the article was changed to something like: "Tabloid style scaremongering!" then an introduction could be given to the piece (from someone Behind The Scenes) and we could use these occasions to educate "newcomers" to the "activist community" or alternatively use it as an opportunity to rip into the twat who put this up in the first place - and not just censor anyone who doesn't think like us enlightened ones.

fad b.