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RM292: Justice Misguided: How a Fabricated Statistic Shaped Sex Offender Laws
Registry Matters
English - February 06, 2024 04:59 - 1 hour - 44.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: RM291: Are You Afraid Of An Invisible Boogeyman?
Our program tonight goes over the myth of “Frightening and High”. Politicians, leveraging unfounded fears of high sex offender recidivism, have crafted oppressive laws. These were upheld by the Supreme Court, relying on a debunked 80% recidivism rate from a 1986 article, causing widespread harm to registrants. [4:26] Ex-cop critiques podcast’s license plate reader discussion […]