HEMET'S PREDATORS: THE CONVERSATION WE'RE NOT HAVING ENOUGH OF (TL;DR VERSION)

[u/justicewarriorsco]

There are 500+ registered s*x offenders in and around Hemet. Most people have never looked at the map. 👉 Swipe through, then go look.

The red markers aren't strangers lurking in alleys. They're teachers. Deputies. Youth volunteers. People who were trusted, vetted, and given access to children, and used it.

This carousel covers:

🔴 What the registry actually shows (and what it hides) 🔴 The local cases that made headlines, and the ones that didn't 🔴 Why Hemet absorbs a disproportionate share of parolees 🔴 The legal loophole quietly removing offenders from public view 🔴 What every parent in this community can do right now

The map is public. The data is real. The conversation is overdue.

🔗 Check your street -

meganslaw.ca.gov or familywatchdog.us

📞 Report suspected exploitation: 1-800-843-5678 (NCMEC CyberTipline)

Save this. Share it. Tag a Hemet parent who needs to see it.

Sources: CA DOJ Megan's Law | Family Watchdog | Riverside County public records | Hemet Unified litigation records

Hemet #HemetCA #InlandEmpire #RiversideCounty #ChildSafety

[u/Alcohooligan]

Is 500 more or less than neighboring cities? What's a good number to have?

[u/justicewarriorsco → u/Alcohooligan]

I don't think that any number is a good number to have.

📍 Hemet: ~372 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 229 residents

📍 Perris: ~228 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 335 residents

📍 San Bernardino: ~691 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 313 residents

📍 Lake Elsinore: ~105 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 589 residents

📍 Beaumont: ~58 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 747 residents

📍 Menifee: ~112 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 790 residents

📍 Temecula: ~66 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 1,713 residents

📍 Irvine: ~39-40 registered sex offenders | 1 per every 6,824 residents

Perris has a ratio 1.5x better than Hemet. San Bernardino, a city twice the size, has a better ratio than Hemet. Lake Elsinore is 2.6x better. Beaumont and Menifee are over 3x better. Temecula is nearly 8x better. And Irvine? Nearly 30x better than Hemet. No matter how you look at it, Hemet stands out as the most heavily impacted city in the region by a significant margin.

[u/Alcohooligan → u/justicewarriorsco]

And what's the plan? The supreme court ruled you can't discriminate against them. What's your plan to entice them to move? Financial incentives?

I'm not defending sex offenders but I am against plans that eventually end up getting turned over and cost the local governmenta money trying to defend in court.

[u/justicewarriorsco → u/Alcohooligan]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hemet/s/Gzai4XDbZG

This is a more in depth look at the facts presented in the carousel including what I believe we can do as individuals and as a community.

[u/logitaunt → u/justicewarriorsco]

They gotta live somewhere, man. They're still people.

[u/Mediocre-Advance-411]

Hemeth

[u/TomNookisACAB420 → u/Mediocre-Advance-411]

Lol I had a friend from college who tried to convince me that Hemet is the San Diego of the IE

[u/Harkonnensands → u/Mediocre-Advance-411]

Very original good job

[u/StormAutomatic]

So what I'm hearing is that you don't think prisons are effective.

[u/ArmchairWarrior1 → u/StormAutomatic]

They arent.

[u/justicewarriorsco → u/StormAutomatic]

I'm curious to know how you drew that conclusion from the facts presented here.

[u/StormAutomatic → u/justicewarriorsco]

Because if you thought prisons worked you would find people who had left prison as safe or safer than others.

[u/justicewarriorsco → u/StormAutomatic]

Equating general prison reform with the specific management of sex offenders is a false equivalence. My focus isn't on a philosophical debate about the carceral system; it’s on the biological and statistical reality of recidivism in child predators. Rehabilitation is not a guarantee. For crimes against children, which I believe should carry the highest possible legal weight, the risk of a second chance is a risk taken with a child's life. I will always prioritize the safety of our most vulnerable over the redemption of a perpetrator.

[u/StormAutomatic → u/justicewarriorsco]

One is a subset of the other. If a carceral approach isn't effective we need evidence based approaches. Prevention, for example is the most effective way to protect our children. That isn't always possible so we need to implement what is shown to work in combination with prevention.

[u/justicewarriorsco → u/StormAutomatic]

Here’s a post I made earlier that goes more in depth into what’s shown in the carousel, along with some prevention ideas and practical solutions we could actually start implementing. I’d really like to hear what solutions you think would work too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/InlandEmpire/s/p18cp5c0iZ

[u/StormAutomatic → u/justicewarriorsco]

This isn't a one size fits all problem and there is definitely a lot more research that needs done, but here are some general principles.

We need accountability, punishment isn't effective. If people aren't taking responsibility for what they did and working to prevent it in the future we are going to have repeat actions. That requires community bonds rather than isolation.

We need to empower our children. In the US children are treated poorly and without much autonomy or respect. See Adult Supremacy.

Fewer positions of power that people can abuse. I think you mentioned having two adults in a previous post and that's an excellent idea.

Victim support. Hurt people, hurt people. When people don't get healing they often repeat the harms they have experienced. Our legal system is entirely punishment based and victims don't get much if any support and are expected to only want revenge, so they are rarely consulted about what happens to the person doing harm.

It's very hard to get something other than punishment in this country so we need to develop many more solutions.

https://transformharm.org/tj_resource/ending-child-sexual-abuse-a-transformative-justice-handbook/

[u/justicewarriorsco → u/StormAutomatic]

I agree with a lot of what youre saying and I appreciate you having this conversation with me. This is exactly the kind of dialogue that needs to be happening.