Find your friendly neighborhood perverts with Offender Locator (iPhone apps)

by Justin on July 29, 2009

offender locator Find your friendly neighborhood perverts with Offender Locator (iPhone apps)First came WatchOut! and now appears Offender Locator from ThinAir Wireless, the latest iPhone application to help innocent American civilians find nearby registered sex offenders.  Offender Locator first begins by locating your position or that of any one of your iPhone contacts, then it searches a database of roughly 50, 000 registered US sex offenders, and finally it displays their name’s on a map with the corresponding address and list of crimes.  ThinAir Wireless concedes though, that because there are so many perverts in the US, some of Offender Locator’s information could quickly become outdated or inaccurate.

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Tagged as: iPhone apps, Location-Based Applications, offender locator, sex offender finder, thinair wireless

  • David Hess
    All the attention given to registered sex offenders gives a distorted perception of the more likely perpetrators of sex crimes against children. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 93% of children who are victims of sexual abuse are victimized by family members or acquaintances. 94% of those arrested for the sexual molestation of children in New York State are first time offenders who are not listed on any registry. To put it another way, if a child has been the victim of sexual abuse, the odds are 4 in 1,000 that the child was victimized by a stranger who is a registered sex offender. The odds are far greater, 874 in 1,000, that the child was victimized by a family member or acquaintance who is not listed on the sex offender registry.
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