GPS for Wisconsin Predators

via UPI.

Wisconsin has enacted a law that requires paroled child molesters to wear a Global Positioning System tracking device for at least 20 years.

"Expanded GPS will help law enforcement know exactly where these people are every minute of every day," said Gov. Jim Doyle as he signed the bill into law Monday in Madison.

Under the system, warnings would be issued if a sex offender gets near a school, park or other places frequented by children, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday.

Several other bills toughening criminal penalties for sex offenders were also signed into law Monday, including a 25-year mandatory sentence for first-degree sexual assault of a child.

Some may claim this to be a violation of civil rights; the perp has done their time. However, it is widely accepted (and in the DSM-IV as such) that pedophelia is a non-treatable, incurable disease.

The recitivism rate of these offenders is high...and typically inevitable.

Our society had decided that for public safety, civil committment is necessary for our most violent predators. Why not extend that by monitoring these people to truly ensure public safety of our children?

I"ll say it again: we are the only mammals on earth that do not definitively and consistently separate the predators from the herd.

I support this legislation as a person who is educated about mental health and as a concerned citizen.