Martin Anthony Miller, 50, of Water Street, Oakfield, is charged with being a sex offender who failed to report his change of address within 10 days. He was arrested at an address on Route 33 in Bergen. Miller was jailed without bail.
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He doesn't show in the NYS
He doesn't show in the NYS inmate lookup. I've always wondered who is watching them 24/7/365 even if they DO report their address change. Seems like they can re-offend if they wanted to, address change or not. Now he's back in jail without bail and is costing taxpayers a fortune just because he didn't make the change. Someone must have been supervising him to notice the discrepancy so why aren't they also being held accountable for not enforcing rules placed upon him (making sure he registered with his new address) BEFORE being sent back to jail?
I don't get it. All these special laws just cost us money and don't really accomplish anything. They don't make anyone safer, that's for sure.
Sex offender registry, ballistic fingerprinting, micro-stamping, special DWI laws, cell phone/driving laws...etc. They really don't protect anyone but they do cost tax payers a fortune and generate a lot of involuntary tax revenue and fines. I just find these laws a pathetic way for lawmakers and law enforcement to justify their huge numbers and reason to be employed.
I call it "feel good
I call it "feel good legislation."
Some kid dies in a car accident, some media report says the driver was drunk, some politician sees a chance to grab headlines, and suddenly we have new laws to punish drivers who drink and drive with kids in the car. Never mind that their were laws in place at the time of the original accident that did nothing to stop the driver from being stupid in the first place.
Latest example is Chris Lee's legislation requiring those who sell airline tickets to disclose the name of the carrier actually making the flight. How the hell will the average person know who these carriers are or care? Yet, businesses must go to a great deal of expense to comply with a new law that will do zilch to make airline flights safer.
It's nutty for sure.
It's nutty for sure.
Howard, exactly what laws
Howard, exactly what laws should go away?
Doug, what proof do you offer that the laws you mention do nothing to improve public safety?
Am I to understand that you both advocate the dissolution of such laws? DWI should be legal? Sex offenders should not be tracked? Where do you draw the line? Stop enforcing laws you don't care for? Or maybe make it an affirmative defense that you disagree with the crime in which you've been charged?
Granted, the laws you mention are not perfect - because people with free will are involved.
But where is the line between "feel good laws" and anarchy?
Who decides?
The "feel good" legislation
The "feel good" legislation you're referring to that Congressman Lee recently guided through the House was written in part by the families of flight 3407. They obviously care.
You also might want to ask Deputy Reeves his thoughts on "feel good" legislation. I'd bet he and his mother would be happy to tell you all about it.
Kevin, Clearly, you did not
Kevin,
Clearly, you did not really read what I wrote. You're comment is cheap and without merit. Go back and read what I wrote, instead of reading your own imagination into it.
Your post - "Latest example
Your post - "Latest example is Chris Lee's legislation requiring those who sell airline tickets to disclose the name of the carrier actually making the flight. How the hell will the average person know who these carriers are or care?"
My reply - "The "feel good" legislation you're referring to that Congressman Lee recently guided through the House was written in part by the families of flight 3407. They obviously care."
http://www.3407memorial.com/index.php
I can read just fine.
Kevin, I fail to see how
Kevin,
I fail to see how knowing the name of a particular carrier will make me safe if I travel by air. I have to say Howard hit the nail on the head with his post.
I also fail to see how Leandra's law applies in regard to Deputy Reeves and his Mother. Obviously someone in their family was killed by a drunk driver otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned their names together. If the above mentioned law would have been in place prior to the accident that took their family member how would it have helped prevent their loss?
Kevin, On the matter of the
Kevin,
On the matter of the flight -- please explain how knowing the names of the carries will save one single life? If you booked a flight and were told at the time that "Airway of the Skies" was the carrier, would you know the first damn thing about "Airway of the Skies"? Would it really stop you from booking the flight?
If the people on Flight 3407 had known who the carrier was, would even one of them not taken the flight?
The idea that knowing the name of the carrier of that flight would have saved one single life is laughably ridiculous.
I think your reply -- devoid of any discussion of how Lee's legislation will save lives, and being rather an appeal to emotion, quite graphically proves my point that this is exactly a piece of feel-good, do nothing, waste of taxpayer money, more than useless bit of government burden on business. Your reply is entirely an appeal to emotion rather than empirical and practical.
I particularly take offense you dragging the Reeves family tragedy into this. As Jeremiah says, how would Leandra's Law saved a life in that terrible incident?
Drunken driving is already a crime. It was a crime then. It is a crime now. And taking a life while drinking and driving is a serious crime. It's not a part of the criminal code that needs any further enhancements. But pandering politicians will continue to waste taxpayer money writing new laws that do nothing to make any us safer.
Your attempt to try and twist my words into something that I didn't say is not welcome.
Martin A Miller is listed as
Martin A Miller is listed as living at 5 Water St. Oakfield on this site.
http://www.familywatchdog.us/default.asp
Doug said (broke up only to
Doug said (broke up only to answer specific parts clearer)
"He doesn't show in the NYS inmate lookup."
If he wasn't incarcerated in State Prison he wont show on the NYS lookup, local jail sentences or probation wont show.
per the NYS SORA website (link at end of post) he was convicted of an A Misdemeanor Sexual Abuse 2nd. A Misdemeanors are punishable by a max of 1 year in jail which would stay local.
"I've always wondered who is watching them 24/7/365 even if they DO report their address change.... Someone must have been supervising him to notice the discrepancy.... (making sure he registered with his new address) BEFORE being sent back to jail?" (shortened slightly hope I didn't change context, if I did let me know)
if he is no longer under supervision IE Probation or Parole then no one is supervising him. the local police dept (BPD, LPD or GCSD depending on where they live) are responsible for following up if he does not return his annual certification letter verifying he has not moved. if they do move they have a limited amount of time to register the new address. http://www.criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/faq.htm look at #8
If he does not return the certification or moves without registering then they can be charged as in this case.
link to his SORA page http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/SomsSUBDirectory/offenderDetails.jsp…
Doug wasn't trying to pick on you but figured your post was the easiest to list everything for.
and the laws aren't designed to stop offenders from re-offending, IMO they simply educate the people around them to known offenders. to sound really pessimistic most sex crimes are not reported therefor most offenders wont be known and on the list.....
Kevin, not to sound
Kevin,
not to sound insensitive to the families of those killed, but how does knowing the company that will be flying the plane affect your decision to allow you to be safer? Aren't all commercial airlines (regional or national) required to have certified planes and crews?
Wouldn't it be more productive to know the training history of the pilot and the number of hours he has worked vs hours rested in the past week? how about the same info on the guy that made sure the engine was up to specs?
wait, that would be cumbersome and unnecessary.... In my browsing the link you provided it says that the info was already provided but you had to hold the mouse over the arrow to see it... If you care what company operated your plane wouldn't you have tracked that down already?
People are always complaining about Washington and Albany getting bigger and bigger and "pet" laws like this and Leandra's among other while they have good intentions (and get press coverage which is always good if your a politician) do nothing but cost money. Who do you think is going to pay for the changes to websites and carrier policies/forms to indicate what regional airline is covering a flight? the person buying the ticket! Other laws come through as unfunded mandates which leads to large budget gaps at a local level.
who do you think will decide not to drink and drive with kids in the car (which was illegal prior) because its a bigger punishment now?
Back to the original subject
Back to the original subject for a moment. This guy used to live next door to me. I don't care if it was him or someone else, what pissed me off was the fact it took 3 MONTHS to get notice in the mail a registered offender had moved into my area.
Sorry for going back to the
Sorry for going back to the "feel good" legislation but I heard (on the radio) this morning that NY just passed a new law. You must now slow down and give extra room to a police car that has a motorist pulled over. Really? Wouldn't it just be considered reckless driving if someone speeds by?