For four years, I lived in the Citadel Apartments in New Mexico. While I certainly had no personal problems with them, they weren't anywhere near the nicest. Indeed, my first "viva Nuevo Mexico" moment happened 2 months after I moved in, when, in one of my favorite moments ever,a guy who lived two doors down from me got his head cracked open with a bottle and a baseball bat just by my apartment, and when the cops showed up, one of the officers had dated the victim's cousin (and the guy turned out OK - in another twist to the story, he had been busted for DUI 15 times and claimed an 80 year old guy did it). As I said, not the greatest place, and I occasionally thought of moving out, but was simply too lazy.
In all my time there, I never had problems with the manager (or with crime, said for the aforementioned event, which didn't personally happen to me). However, I have to say, the manager's husband always kind of weirded me out. I never felt quite right about him, avoiding him when I saw him, and always thinking he was kind of creepy and had a bit of the air of your generic scumbag.
Turns out, my gut feeling wasn't without base. For, as I learned today while my girlfriend and I were looking at apartments in New Mexico for our eventual return, we learned that the husband of the manager of the apartment is a convicted sex offender. This, in a place that was home to many lower-income families with children, not to mention single women (generally students).
Viva, Nuevo Mexico.
You did check to see what he did, right?
ReplyDeleteIn Michigan you can be on that registry for some ridiculous shit. (gay sex in 1958, public urination charged as indecent exposure, for instance)
Here, they just give the charge they were convicted of, not a case summary that might be useful in evaluating whether you need to be worried about the guy. Michigan's criminal sexual conduct laws are written very broadly, with lots of different sorts of crimes stuck together.
I would say this means the registry isn't effective at its primary purpose, but it is performing its primary purpose in letting politicians claim they're fighting child molesters and get reelected.
To be fair, I didn't see what he did - I don't actually know his name to look him up. However, I do remember once looking on some site to see how many sex offenders lived around me - it was "only" 17 in two different apartment complexes. Good times...
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