Every Halloween, in virtually every community, some obsessed individuals play out their heroic rescue fantasies by scaring everyone else about the dangers our precious kids face from strangers waiting to molest them.
Websites, local newspapers, TV morning shows, and activist groups dutifully repeat the same story: that people on Sex Offender Registries right in your own town are treacherous.
And yet the data…
Each Halloween, vigilantes demand the home of every registered sex offender be marked “to protect the public.”
Science says this is nonsense.
In just 72 hours, the sun will set and young kids will start cruising up and down my street. Costumed, faces painted, they’ll have one thing on their Halloween minds—sugar.
However, their parents are supposed to be thinking about predators, who supposedly lurk behind every door, and inside every clown costume.