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| Jerry Ouellette |
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07/20/2011
By Katie Richard
With more than 14,000 registered sex offenders currently living in Ontario communities, Oshawa MPP Jerry Ouellette says more needs to be done to ensure families, and children in particular, are safe.
That’s why he’s pushing the idea of GPS tracking devices for all registered sex offenders, he says.
“Ontario families have a simple request...when my child is at a park, when my child is at school, when my child is at a local arena...I want to know that everything is being done make sure it’s safe,” MPP Ouellette says, adding a provincial Progressive Conservative government would make the change to this system.
- It? You are calling a child an "it?" Wow!
“We reject the...approach that says crime is not a priority and that sexual predators can be trusted on the honour system,” he adds. “I will not hesitate to slap a GPS tracking device on sex offenders who are back on the street in order to keep them from preying on our children.”
- He must be up for re-election? As usual, another ignorant politician who thinks sex offender = child molester and pedophile. Not all sex offenders have harmed children, so making the usual blanket statement like this, is injustice. But hey, if he spoke the truth, the sheeple would not vote for him, or like him very much, it could cost him his career.
Ouellette says the devices, which would be left on the offender as long as he/she remained on the sex offender registry, would allow police to know exactly where they are day or night.
- Yeah, but it still would not prevent a crime. If a person is so dangerous they need 24/7 monitoring, do you think they would care about a GPS device on them? No!
Police would then be able to stop them, if necessary, from entering areas where there could be kids like playgrounds or a school, he says.
- No, you cannot "stop" them, you can warn them, and then if they do not obey, get in a car and go try to find them, but it would not stop them nor prevent any crime.
“Ontario people need to know that police have all the tools necessary to keep them safe,” the MPP explains. “With 14,000 registered sex offenders living in our neighbourhoods, families have a right to be kept safe. Using GPS technology to help police track these predators, and react immediately if they pose a threat, is the right thing to do.”
- Yep, let's all follow in the steps of the USSA. Follow them down the hole!
“We will develop a website that lists the names and addresses of registered sex offenders living in Ontario,” it says.
- And you will be inviting vigilantism as well. See here and here.
Ouellette, who says he was instrumental in getting the sex offender registry put in place, adds the law enforcement officials he has spoken to about the idea are in favour of it.
“We’ve got to protect our kids the best way we can,” he explains adding more than 40 U.S. states, three provinces and the federal government use GPS technology to monitor certain types of offenders.
- The only way to truly protect kids, is to remove them from their homes, since 90% or more of all sexual crimes against children, are by their own parents and/or family.
