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Originally Posted by ngdawg
No, it's not.
Four times in 27 total posts. That's as far as I went, though. Might have been more...just wanted to show you that you are indeed using one constant unrelated scenario to prove your point.
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Erm. . .nowhere in the example you posted did I mention a murder-offender list. .
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Now who is going off half-cocked? You were given the exact nature and status of someone's profile and still use some ridiculous analogy to prove...what? That the NJSP could possibly be, as you keep pointing out, 'going off half-cocked'? You have the same information I do, but choose to use the same excuses to make your point, when it's simply not prudent.
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To be completely honest, I have no idea what you're referring to here. I can't see how this relates to the part of my post that you quoted. I was given the exact nature and status of the person's profile AFTER you had already started this thread and AFTER it had already been pointed out to you that you should find out what he did. I was then speaking in general terms - not specifically to you - that going off half cocked in situations like this is not a good idea for ANYONE to do, not just you.
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I never said I didn't know what his crimes were; I knew what they were from the start
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Really? Then what, specifically, did he do, and who did he do it to? Did she consent to it? Did he know her? Was the conviction the result of a plea bargain?
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You came here guns blazing accusing me of going on some witch hunt.
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Actually, Analog accused you of going on a witch hunt. I said, after you finally found out some more information, that it's no LONGER a witch hunt.
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Please read and tell me where I said I don't know what he did.
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Hope you have a while. . .
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Originally Posted by you
We can assume he didn't brush up against a 15 year old....
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if you have to assume something you don't know it.
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Originally Posted by you
I really would assume the very worst since plea bargaining usually involves the lessening of charges.
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Again, assuming means you don't know.
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Originally Posted by you
the person's reasons for being listed as a sex offender are quite clear: Aggravated sexual assault and wreckless endangerment of a child. It's those two beginning words that more or less point to the severity of his actions.
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"more or less point to" does not mean you know what happened.
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Originally Posted by you
I tried to access more information, but it seems that would only be available for the asking price of $34.95....
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Here you say that while you don't have the information, you know where you can get it but are unwilling to pay for it.
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Originally Posted by you
generally, those words aren't bantered about here, and until known otherwise, suggest a degree of violence, not merely slipping into the wrong bed.
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Generally suggesting something is not the same as proving it, and it means you still don't know what the hell he did.
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Originally Posted by you
The circumstances of his conviction are not known,
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How much more clear do you have to make it before you convince yourself that you didn't know what he did?
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I'd like to reverse that and say don't assume he just didn't know his girlfriend was only 16.
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I didn't. I said I didn't know what he did, and neither did you. I said find OUT what he did before you react to it.
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It goes both ways and excuse me if I have a vested interest in my children's safety and choose to put that first instead of making assumptions that all is well, really.
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I have a vested interest in my child's safety too and that means I don't need some damn sex offender list, because I watch him around other people no matter WHAT I do or do not know about those people. If I received partial, incomplete, shoddy information on the criminal history of someone in my neighborhood, you'd better damn well believe I'd take it VERY seriously - - and would then find out what the hell he did so that I would know how best to address the situation. But really, the situation with the kid wouldn't change - I wouldn't have trusted the guy even if he wasn't on some list.
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Should I myself have contacted the captain? Hindsight says yes, but at the time, shortcuts to quick resolution said yes.
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I'm confused on how you seem to think that going to your neighbor in order to get an answer from the cops would be faster than going straight to the cops. The truth of the matter is that you acted without considering what your best options were. That's fine - hell we all do that. Just admit it and try to do better next time.