We Do That With Livestock All The Time

From the QC Times ("Tracking sex offenders becomes 'nightmare' for police"):

A large map of Davenport covers a wall in the office of Davenport police Detective Richard Tubbs and features yellow circles around each of the city’s schools and day-care centers. Nearby is a large metal tape measure.

The map illustrates where sex offenders can live under an Iowa law imposed in September 2005 that restricts them from living within 2,000 feet of such facilities. Tubbs and other police, prosecutors and parole officers say it better illustrates the difficulties they’ve experienced since the law’s inception.

“It has been a nightmare to enforce, it has caused so many problems,” Tubbs said.

Tubbs said the law has been hard to implement and maintain, and in some cases, it is an unfair burden on sex offenders, who use it as an excuse to not register or to lie about their whereabouts.

Davenport police Capt. David Struckman said the 2,000-foot law has made offenders more deceptive and has made it challenging to keep track of them.

Despite Iowa's arbitrary 2000 foot law being a disaster for police departments to enforce, politicians don't show any sign of repealing it ever because they're a bunch of wimps who would rather continue to throw money at bad legislation rather than admit there's a problem. Witness Nussle and Culver's desire to spend zillions in Federal and State money on GPS-enabled ankle bracelets.

I've got a good idea. If Iowa isn't going to get rid of their stupid law, why not invent some GPS-enabled ankle bracelet that will also send 50,000 volts through a sex offender if he ventures within 2000 feet of a playground, daycares, after school malt shops, or a 9 year old girl's pubes? Put radio beacons on all locations of interest and then turn on the juice. It'll be like Steve King's electric fence along the border with Mexico:

We could also electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.

What do you think? Maybe Governor Knapp should unlock some of that IPERS pension money for "investment" and Clark McLeod could create another hi-tech start-em up making these things.