AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce
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Most offenders will comply. They realize that they face strict punishment if they are found in violation.
Robert Ley
The SAFE teams will give us an opportunity to knock on the doors of more offenders around the state of California.
Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia
To say that the majority is high DUI and repeat offenders is not true.
Chuck Heeman
The truth is, ... the only way to protect children from these sex offenders is to incarcerate them for the rest of their lives.
Jack Levin
This has been my baby, ... What we're going to do is eliminate the possibility of sex offenders moving into our neighborhood.
Patrick Byrne
Knowing they're sex offenders, they should expect ramifications like that. Especially when there's a whole house full of them.
Rhonda Jones
The argument came down to the fact that we wanted people to truly be able to identify sex offenders without confusion.
Greg White
We applaud anything that will give law enforcement an extra layer in tracking offenders, ... It will allow us to know unequivocally what they're doing.
Jennifer Johnson
When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.
David Labahn
One of the things that we try to reinforce is that child sex offenders look just like everybody else. They're in every segment of our community.
Joe Birkett
I have some drug offenders who will probably get lucky and go free.
Frank Desalvo
[That, says Larry Mullen, is what led his brother, Michael, to kill two men he didn't know, both registered sex offenders who had been living quietly in Bellingham.] He was just a sweet kid, ... I just wish I had an answer.
Larry Mullen
This law will certainly not prevent those cases of sexual abuse from occurring, ... Most sex offenders are not individuals who snatch kids off the street.
Jennifer Miller
Here you have a unique situation where children are literally showing up at the doors of sex offenders.
Andrew J. Spano
He stood and held his ground and as one of the officers approached him to arrest him, the officer was blind-sided from multiple offenders.
Capt. Allan Elkins
The people of Kansas are concerned about the amount of money we're spending on incarcerating drug offenders.
Laura Green
The justice system, we believe, needs to be changed in the way it sentences offenders.
Tom Lindsay
It's been our position they need to be cared for in a separate facility. There have been some instances where (sex offenders) were placed unknowingly, and it came to light after an incident.
Shelly Peterson
There are plenty of violent sex offenders in Clark County.
Kevin Carns
The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween.
Andrew J. Spano
A large number are pre-trial misdemeanor offenders and about 50 are released each week.
John Roach
I think that the Koval case demonstrates we cannot rely on sex offenders for honest information about their whereabouts.
Assemblyman Ryan Karben
I ask you to enforce the law by seizing these illegal goods and arresting the offenders.
Bob Ulrich
The fact of the matter is that as a group, sex offenders are not dangerous - and by that, I mean that they are not likely to commit another crime for which they were convicted. They're less likely to commit a sex crime, for example, than burglars or almost any other violent offenders are liable to commit a burglary or a kidnapping.
John Lafond
Generally, sex offenders are people we like to keep track of because they're likely to re-offend, ... That's why we don't like it when they disappear. They kind of float down at the bottom layers of society and go unnoticed.
Paul Rogers
There has been a deluge of calls from offenders.
Barry Arnold
We're trying to do everything we can to ensure that we are in compliance with the federal legislation to have offenders who are on the Ontario registry go onto the national registry.
Terry Nichols
It is a resolution that is standard for first-time offenders with no other criminal history or arrests and individuals with a history of drug addiction.
Michael Edmondson
For something as dramatic as that act, the punishment in no way fits the crime. I'd say historically we've done a horrible job of addressing juvenile crime, which is why these young people are growing up to become adult offenders.
Ross Mirkarimi
People need to know there are sex offenders using the Internet. Whether they've been caught or not, whether they're registered or not, there are people out there who are using technology for their own benefit.
Jennifer Mitchell
We've tried to crack down on habitual offenders. A lot of times, these are very difficult decisions to make. These aren't bad kids -- they are just kids who have made a bad decision.
Todd Alexander
These Project Snowball arrests involve offenders from all walks of life, who live in every corner of the city. They only have one thing in common, and that is the criminal approach to their relationship with children.
Julian Fantino
Most offenders, you know, re-offend over and over again.
Donna Roberts
I think he needs to go (to prison) and stay there until he dies. I think, really, sex offenders can't be cured, they can only be contained. That's what I've been taught.
John Connor
This ordinance will give the citizens of the county a better tool for their law enforcement agency to use where they can identify where convicted offenders and predators live and it restricts where they can congregate.
Dale Williams
We've been able to work through that situation favorably for the county. We will continue to work on favorable ways to work with offenders and work with the state.
George Boykin
[The] ridiculousness ... because these individuals are first offenders who are unlikely to commit a crime again.
Bernard J. Ebbers
You know, currently 700 offenders a month are put back into the streets in California with no risk assessment whatsoever, nothing, nada, no treatment. This will change that.
Marc Klaas
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi -- all three -- are trying to get a handle on which offenders they don't have and where they might be.
Tela Mange
We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole hearings.
Alison Parker
I just found out today we have seven sex offenders in this area.
Lydia Fernandez
Whereas the children had been protected originally, now a lot of these sex offenders are becoming their stepdads.
Jennifer Miller
It's been an amazing help in catching child support offenders. We're glad we have the system because it helps us to achieve our ultimate goal which is to have the children of these delinquents well provided for.
Cindy Price
I'm not making these statements to try to coddle offenders.
Leo Cotter
Extensive damage was caused to one of the four units of the centre that accommodates approximately 1,152 maximum category offenders.
Stephen Korabie
Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls into question its willingness to abide by international human rights standards.
Kate Allen
These people haven't served time for their crimes, and they're getting amnesty. We're being pushed aside. The ex-offenders should have got amnesty before any illegal aliens. Are there certain laws that certain people can break?
Mark Carter
We continue to believe that the ordinance is inconsistent with state laws governing sex offenders and that laws which make it extremely difficult for individuals to find housing do not make the public safer.
Doug Honig
Repeat offenders are the most dangerous drunks on the road.
Teresa Belew
They know there are sex offenders hanging around the community center with kids and at the swimming pool, but they've lacked any legal mechanism to exclude them.
Attorney General Rob Mckenna
Who gets two years on something like this? I've got first offenders getting more than that.
Glenn Mitchell
We've spent a great deal of public and private energy demonizing these types of offenders.
William Buckman
These were repeat offenders.
Robin Pemberton
We still have laws for this type of crime that allow offenders to be released before they complete all of their initial sentence.
Mark Plowden
There is no authority, there is no certain agency that monitors these types of offenders.
Andy Kahan
MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
Ambrose Bierce
We've seen great success at Sheridan in dealing with drug offenders and hope that we will be able to replicate that success.
Abby Ottenhoff
There are generally more offenders living in communities than most people realize.
Katie Ford
You have all these offenders in that area who could be anywhere. There is no mechanism in place for them to be registering as they should be.
Laura Ahearn
The commander allowed sex offenders to use our hall and didn't tell anybody. Nobody knew until people were coming in for a drink after work, ... I have kids, that's all.
Kevin Curtis
We have decided that this offence is too serious for a community sentence. You will be sent to a young offenders' institution for six months.
Ronnie Barker
The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course to law-abiding and productive lives.
Alex Acosta
We're protecting offenders from false accusations. … We're not stiff-arming anybody, and it's not an additional punishment.
Mike Stack
It's pretty rare to find a group like this. They comprise about half of 1 percent of the registered sex offenders in California. So, even as sex offenders go, they are the elite.
Jesus Padilla
We don't feel like we have any habitual offenders at the airport. Otherwise they wouldn't be operating at the airport.
Marc Lavorgna
There are 69 sex offenders now living in Surprise.
John Vance
The Ministry of Public Security will be granted more authority in disciplining offenders, including deporting foreigners who break the law.
Ke Liangdong
Offenders tell children all these things, you're going to get in trouble, I'm going to be taken out of the home, you're not going to have your animals, you'll have to change schools, leave your friends, you're mom's going to jail.
Erin Sorenson
Most family members want offenders to sit and listen. But is what the family says really going to affect Roger Bentley? Nothing else did.
Emily Blomme
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