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human
Why are sex offenders registered in a database for everyone to see but not other criminals?
gpt
A while back, people started running news stories about kids being molested by previously convicted sex offenders. Lots of people freaked out about that, and began demanding a sex offender registry. The problem is, it's very difficult for a politician to *oppose* a sex offender registry; being accused of supporting rapists is not very good for your campaign. So the laws got passed.

Why didn't similar laws get passed for other crimes? The theory is that recidivism rates are lower for other crimes, so a registry wouldn't really help protect someone. But in reality, it might just be because there haven't been a bunch of news stories about people being killed by previously convicted murderers.