@lillycoyote Drunk drivers cause far more deaths and physical injuries but, I think, but “sex offenders,” if you are excluding people who are labeled sex offenders because they have urinated in public and or have had consensual sex with people who are very close to their own age, within a year or two (and both of those are a whole other kettle of fish, as they say) I’m not really sure. My question goes off just the official definition of both. I know there are people who get fanged by the highway patrol who are just over the legal limit but not swerving and weaving all over the road, but they are considered drunk drivers all the same; as with peeping Toms or b/f and g/f 16 months apart but one was under aged but 4 months before her 18th b-day but officially none of that mattered. Since I don’t have the power to wave anyone through or give them a pass on how I personally believe or not that they did a crime I am going off what is officially the category.
@john65pennington some sex offenders will never be discovered, not like drunk drivers. so, a comparison may never be possible. For the 1st part, that is true, many sex offenders as described by law, will not be exposed, but then there are many high and drunk drivers who manage to make it back to their homes before whacking another car or plowing through someone’s home. Those who are not known for whatever reason don’t really factor in this question, just those who have a palpable effect on society overall not so much the individual. I am not trying to compare heads up, side by side, both possible crimes.
@marinelife Going strictly by the numbers, it is DUIs. There are 549,038 registered sex offenders in the US and 100,000 non-compliant for a total of 649,038.
There are 1,396,888 DUIs every year.
I have yet to find any numbers as to how many of the sex offenders reoffended and if so in what way, or how many reoffended with a murder as part of the reoffending but at the moment of this post (6:14 PST) there is a number to attach to the DUI drivers: 8,692 link → I am keeping personal preference or opinion at bay because most will see that number and think it is a tragedy but if that was the number of deaths caused by sex offenders against their victims there would be all out hysteria, rage, and panic. So, mu focus is on the society as a whole in a real and palpable way who affects or as a greater effect on society. We know when a drunk goes into action there is usually property damage as well as some injuries, but the secondary effect could be tided up traffic, brush fires, a cost maybe unknown to tax payers in the fact we are paying for the emergency crew to respond to the carnage. The affects can spill way beyond the poor sap that got plowed down on his bike or t-boned in the intersection.
@Cruiser I would approach the question by intent and then argue sex offenders ‘cause’ more mayhem by intentionally attacking and causing harm to the victims. That my friend, is why I steered clear of head to head comparison. Not all DUI drivers staggered from the bar with the intent to plow into the sedan with a family coming home from the carnival or any deaths resulting from it. If they knew they were drink and took off on a high speed chase to avoid capture and caused the accident that way maybe there was some de facto intent, but other than that one could never prove it in court.
@Coloma We love to sink our judgementel teeth into the obvious wrong doers, but, the simple truth is that many who proclaim their versions of ‘justice’ for others bad behaviors are just as guilty of causing plenty of harm in their own way. And that is why the question is in the general section to focus on just the facts that can be quantified and not how people feel about one group over the other.
@WillWorkForChocolate _ I believe drunk drivers cause far more deaths, but sex offenders cause way more life altering changes and lifelong trauma that sometimes can be worse than death._ So, a drunk driver who takes away a parent or both of a child and leaves the child maimed or in a chair would be more less, or equal in lifelong trauma, pain, and anguish? As stated above by @marinelife there are numbers to how many sex offenders and how many DUIs there was and how many deaths by DUI drivers to date. Can you elucidate how or what percent of the sex offenders to the DUI drivers cause a greater harm? Is that greater harm contained to individuals or the community at large? Just to add punctuation to your answer. :-) And @YARNLADY expand on why that would be so over victims of drunk drivers as to why they would suffer less than at off the actions of a sex offender?
@Fred931 We don’t see any Stranger Danger billboards or PSAs around, do we? That is true at lease from what I have seen, but the PSA against drunk driving which most are pretty tepid, focus on trying to gently persuade or scare with arrest those who would possibly offend by drunk driving but does little to cater to those who don’t drink or warn children that the truck coming up the road might be their drunk neighbor so they might want to abandon that street hockey game and take cover way up on the lawn. At least they might get word about the weird neighbor in class but little to none about drunk drivers.
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