{"id":4926,"date":"2015-03-29T03:38:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncrj.org\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:59:42","slug":"stop-the-sex-offender-registry-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=4926","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Sex Offender Registry Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2015\/03\/paranoid_woman.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=caption>(XiXinXing via iStock)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;How did you arrive at taking up reform of the sex offender registry as a cause?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I\u2019m interested in keeping kids safe and I\u2019m also interested in when our fears don\u2019t match reality. That began when I let my son ride the subway and everyone told me, \u201cDon\u2019t you watch \u2018Law &#038; Order\u2019?\u201d I was called \u201cAmerica\u2019s worst mom\u201d for trusting him on the subway, even though from my own personal experience, both as a New Yorker and as a reporter, I knew it\u2019s really quite safe. So then I started hearing about other things that we worry about that are actually a lot safer than we think \u2014 for instance, in the suburbs, parents are driving their kids to the bus stop. Then I looked up the statistics and it turned out that only between 11 and 13 percent of kids are walking to school anymore \u2014 which, I walked to school when I was a kid. I looked up whether it\u2019s really dangerous to wait at the bus stop and, in fact, the No. 1 way that kids die is as passengers in cars. So it seemed strange that we were obsessing about kidnapping and predators and such when the biggest danger to kids is putting them in the car and driving them to the mall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/03\/26\/stop_the_sex_offender_registry_panic_a_lot_of_those_dots_on_the_map_would_never_hurt_your_kids\/\">interview<\/a> with Lenore Skenazy in <em>Salon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(XiXinXing via iStock) &#8220;How did you arrive at taking up reform of the sex offender registry as a cause? &#8220;Well, I\u2019m interested in keeping kids safe and I\u2019m also interested in when our fears don\u2019t match reality. That began when I let my son ride the subway and everyone told me, \u201cDon\u2019t you watch \u2018Law&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=4926\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop the Sex Offender Registry Panic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9261,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/9261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}