Sex offenders outnumber monitors nearly 800 to 1 in Pierce County

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Sex offenders outnumber monitors nearly 800 to 1 in Pierce County
By Stacia Glenn
Staff writer
August 12, 2014

The numbers are enough to worry most people.

Pierce County is home to 2,396 registered sex offenders. Of those, 582 are deemed by law enforcement to be the most dangerous to the community.

Another 1,787 lower-level offenders are not listed in online databases, so the public doesn’t know what they’ve done or where they live.

Three detectives — one in Pierce County and two in Tacoma — are tasked full-time with monitoring the thousands of sex offenders, all but 76 of whom are men.

[pipoman]

1. Sex offender databases have become useless

They should be reserved for only violent and actual child victimizers. Instead they are used for things like public nudity and 18 year old with 17 year old girlfriends.