Utah's new Welcome Wagon
The lines between being aware of crime, scaring the hell out of ourselves and giving up our privacy entirely to Big Brother get hazier every day.
The state is providing an online crime reporting service that will give Utahns a history of neighborhood crimes over the last 30 days — murders, robberies assaults, sex offenses, even car burglaries. And of course, you can look up the photos and locations of all the registered sex offenders in your 'hood.
The state is providing an online crime reporting service that will give Utahns a history of neighborhood crimes over the last 30 days — murders, robberies assaults, sex offenses, even car burglaries. And of course, you can look up the photos and locations of all the registered sex offenders in your 'hood.
Go to CrimeReports.com, put in your address and let the adrenaline flow.
Today, the Utah House unanimously approved "Jessica's Law" that would lock up certain sex offenders for at least 25 years.
Watching the bill's passage was Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, who would argue for having crime information at your finger tips. Jessica was kidnapped, raped and buried alive in 2005 by a convicted sex offender who lived in her neighborhood.
Sen. Howard Stephenson introduced Lunsford (above, center) along with Utah's own Ed Smart (left), describing them as "warriors for our children."
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