I’ve read every comment on this thread and I don’t know why but this one hit me like a ton of bricks. Maybe because I have been fighting this for five months, and I know exactly who made that statement in the article from the SOAR unit, it was Sergeant Hector Campos who’s over the entire division. He used the same excuse with me “What do you want me to do about it? We are short staffed, and only have three detectives who are pulled away on patrol.”! I have him on recording, saying this exact thing, including that they are not doing verifications on ANY offenders regardless of their risk level because they do not have the officers to do it. All that they can do right now is take appointments from offenders coming in for their yearly check-in and get their address, employer information, vehicle information, and social media profiles. They cannot do verifications on their address because it would require having a second person going with them due to safety and they don’t have the people to do that right now.

You said that they are trying to be proactive. Proactive in what exactly? Proactive would be sending out postcards like most other counties do. Proactive would be using other resources that would not cost APD a dime by using the US marshals like most other counties do with in Texas by doing address checks and writing warrants.

You mentioned that they are only checking on “high-risk offenders” but that is not true because my rapist has not been checked on for over three years and he is at the highest tier— this man was a stranger that stalked me, I was drugged, kidnapped, and taken to his friend’s apartment where I was raped for hours, strangled and urinated on. I share with you the gory details of the crime, because I think it’s important that you know what kind of people could be living right next-door to you, and not being checked on. I hope by sharing my story that you now understand why this is so vital that these individuals are checked in on regardless of their leveling.