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from the how-about-being-aware-of-your-surroundings-instead? dept.
An unexpected catch:
In an informal investigation by Senators Jeffrey D. Klein and Diane J. Savino, staff members took a list of 100 registered sex offenders across New York City and compared it with locations where Pokémon Go players could collect virtual items or use other game features.
In 59 cases, those locations were within half a block of offenders' homes. The staff members, who played the game for two weeks, also found 57 Pokémon — which appear on players' phones as if they exist in the real world — near the offenders' homes, according to a report the senators released on Friday. Such overlap has been reported in other states, including California and North Carolina.
In New York, those discoveries prompted Mr. Klein, a Democrat who represents parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, and Ms. Savino, a Staten Island Democrat, to propose two pieces of legislation, scheduled to be introduced next week.
The first would prevent moderate or high-risk sex offenders from playing so-called augmented-reality games — like Pokémon Go — and the second would require the games' creators to cross-reference their virtual landscapes with lists of offenders' homes and remove any "in-game objective" within 100 feet of them.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday August 01 2016, @06:40AM
Actually New York State ranks 40th (189 sex offender registrants per 100,000 population) out of the fifty states plus DC in per capita registered sex offenders.
What does that have to do with anything? Distance is not measured in peoples. If Alaska had a hundred times more registered sex offenders than New York, it would still be far less offenders per square mile than NY.
What you need is a ranking of "sex offender registrants per square mile"!
It's interesting that you should mention Alaska, as it ranks 15th with 295 sex offender registrants per 100,000. Despite the fact that Alaska is the largest (in area) state, the vast majority of the population is concentrated in just a few areas [alaska.gov].
I'm not interested enough to go and compare the population densities for *inhabited* areas. I'm sure New York (and especially New York City) has a much higher overall population density. But since *most* people (even in Alaska) actually live near other people, the per capita numbers are much more descriptive, IMHO.
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