Saturday - February 23, 2008

America Today

source, via Insty

SOUTHBURY CT - Neighbors of a convicted sex offender living in Southbury are seeking tax breaks on their homes.

Some two dozen homeowners in the Fox Run Drive area believe their property values dropped last fall when David Pollitt moved to his sister’s home in their neighborhood.

They tried but can’t force Pollitt to move out, so they have asked the town to reduce their property tax assessments by as much as 17 percent.

They argue the presence of a registered sex offender has lowered the sale price of their homes.

The 54-year-old Pollitt was released in October after more than 24 years in prison for a series of rapes and moved to Southbury.

Gee, don’t it just figure? They can’t force an ex-con out of their neighborhood, so now they’re looking for some angle to get some money out of it. “Oh, we’ve been so wronged! Look how we’re suffering! See how much potential money we’ve lost if we decide to sell our homes and move away from this horrible situation!” Gak. How truly American: if I can’t get my way, then show me the money.

No word from the courts on how wide the “zone of devaluation” might be. If this case doesn’t rightfully defenestrated, I wonder if judges will come up with a precident setting devaluation chart like we used to see for nuclear blast radii:

simple littering: 0 feet
jaywalking: 2 feet
shoplifting and possession of small amounts of dope: 5 feet
DWB: 30 feet
illegal dumping of non-toxic waste: 40 feet
grand theft auto: 50 feet
burglary: 100 feet
murder in the second: 300 feet
arson: 400 feet
murder in the first: 500 feet
unspecified “hate crime” or making a coworker “uncomfortable”: 1000 feet
sex offender: 10,000 feet

Hell, this could keep a battalion of lawyers busy for the rest of their careers!!

Peeps, this just ain’t right. That’s not how things are supposed to be. I ran across a website the other day that claimed it could map the location of felons living in your neighborhood. While it did generate maps with all sorts of push-pins in them, and each pin had a name and crime associated with it, I found it rather incomplete. I know the guy living in the next building over did some time for something, and he didn’t come up on my local map. But still, this isn’t right. Do the crime, do the time. And that’s it. When someone has “paid their debt to society” they literally have. In my opinion their name is clear.

If folks are so concerned about repeat offenders or recidivividison or other words I can’t spell that mean “once a thief, always a thief” then don’t let the creeps out of jail. I grew up with the whole Criminal Rehabilitation movement. It was liberalism in a nutshell. It didn’t work, because the only way it could work was with constant coaching, solitary confinement, and a huge dose of hellfire religion. Now we have prison overcrowding, plea bargaining, early release, Meaghan’s Law - totally unconstitutional IMO, and today we have this story.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/23/2008 at 03:58 PM   
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