Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement is now releasing some of the arrest figures attributed to Operation FALCON II, a week long combined effort to apprehend fugitives, in which violent sex offenders were a priority target.
Officials are justifiably proud to announce they captured 1,102 sex offenders.
The fringe benefit to this sweep is that they also apprehended 7,935 other fugitives wanted for being gang members, murderers, kidnappers, robbers, drug dealers, carjackers and burglars. For a total of 9,037 arrested criminals.
Bravo!
The only bad thing I can say is that this type of concentrated effort cannot be maintained. Not because Law Enforcement doesn’t have the desire to hunt these criminals down but because they simply do not have the manpower or funding to maintain this type of effort indefinitely.
Which gives me an idea…
You know those silly check boxes on your tax forms asking if you wish to donate $3.00 to the Presidential Election Campaign? (The one I generally don’t check off, because I would rather donate to the candidate of my choice instead of donating anything to a candidate who is diametrically opposed to my beliefs.) Well if they added a box to the tax forms asking “Do you wish to donate $3.00 to the tireless, unrelenting, unmerciful manhunt, prosecution and perpetual incarceration of Child Molesters and Sex Offenders?” That would be a box I would check off without a second thought.
We could even take it a step further…you know how Firefighter’s stand at traffic lights asking driver’s to “Fill The Boot” for Muscular Dystrophy? Maybe the Police could put a Child Molester in a set of pillory-stocks with a sign around their neck asking for donations to fund the hunt for fugitive sex offenders.
Just a thought.
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