Originally Posted by Englishmum

What I do like is that because of "Megan's Law" one can look up zipcodes to see where the area sex offenders are resident.

Originally Posted by sime303

I live in a tiny town here in Maine and there was a double murder about 6 months ago, roughly 20 seconds from my apartment.

http://www.wmtw.com/news/20342344/detail.html

Originally Posted by Englishmum

What I do like is that because of "Megan's Law" one can look up zipcodes to see where the area sex offenders are resident.

However I understand that there are flaws in this; eg. a teenage boy may have been listed for having (consensual) sex with his girlfriend but still gets listed as a sex offender.

Originally Posted by nettlebed

Twenty seconds by foot, or by SR-71?

Originally Posted by Englishmum

What I do like is that because of "Megan's Law" one can look up zipcodes to see where the area sex offenders are resident.

Originally Posted by tonrob

Our little leafy town in Western MA is considered very safe. The neighbours still bang on about a burglary that took place over 20 years ago.

Actually next door neighbour did pop over about 6 months ago to warn is of a spate of "break ins" to cars in people's driveways. Finished the tale by saying that because of this she was now going to start locking her car at night... (Turned out to be some kid who was helping themselves to whatever people had left in clear view inside their unlocked cars).

Originally Posted by Poppy girl

Espanic friends

Originally Posted by Poppy girl

The reason I ask this question is because yesterday, whilst chatting on my cell phone, I missed the turn to SF and ended up in the middle of Oakland ...now there is not much that scares me but OMFG!! I drove for 11miles through the streets and it was full of black folk and Mexicans, now I am not racist but I did not see 1 white face NOT one and had they of all looked pleasant my opinion may of been different but it was flippen scary..the truck went into lock all doors and the baseball hat went on, while I prayed that no one saw a blonde chic and no one rear ended me or I them, as there was no way in hell I was getting out of that truck.........I have seen it on the TV show and now I have lived it the roughest, dirty, scary hole ever, I have been to some poor countrys and seen some things but that was expected, what I saw and felt yesterday was not.

So have you ever been scared in a difficult situation, or is the neighbourhood rough where you are?

Before anyone starts I have many Black and Espanic friends it's just a comment on my observations yesterday

Originally Posted by chrisfromusa

Sex offenders have the LOWEST recidivism rate of all crimes, the sex offender registry is a stupid waste of time that does nothing to improve public safety. It's only a feel good thing and something to score political points.

Originally Posted by chrisfromusa

Sex offenders have the LOWEST recidivism rate of all crimes, the sex offender registry is a stupid waste of time that does nothing to improve public safety. It's only a feel good thing and something to score political points.

Originally Posted by SagenOnion

If I read this correctly, had you been obeying the rules in California and NOT talking on your cell phone whilst driving your car, you would not have ended up in Oakland and this thread would never have been born.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

You're jealous because she's not interested in the stuffing you offered to give her.