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Not even allegedly, she was raped and apparently Uber's background checks were trash and didn't follow proper city laws so they got banned in New Delhi. The guy
by propman 9y ago
Not even allegedly, she was raped and apparently Uber's background checks were trash and didn't follow proper city laws so they got banned in New Delhi. The guy admitted the rape and claimed he'd raped others, he's serving life in prison and he threatened rape victim with murder and raping her with an iron rod. She was a 26 y/o financial executive and sued Uber and settled out of court. Yeah if you're getting strangers to drive women alone at night, I'd hope you'd follow proper background checks.
Just read some other links in article and they were also sued for having at least 25 riders be former sex offenders, sexual assault, and murderers just in Cali wtf. I seriously want to see how many sexual assaults have occurred in uber vs taxis. I see one every day from Uber just in Cali. If taxis did that they would lose their 250k-million dollar medallion so that's an incentive I guess to an archaic regulation. I know others disagree with me, but I would not hire any felons to be drivers. You're giving them complete power over any passenger with no witnesses. I'm completely okay with felons working anywhere with people, but I wouldn't hire one to babysit my kid. That's the similar level of power they have in a car at night and honestly most rape assaults I've seen, the perpetrators had priors
- ziszis 9y agoCan you link to the information re: "having at least 25 riders be former sex offenders, sexual assault, and murderers just in Cali" Don't see it in the source article.
- propman 9y agohttp://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/DA-major-flaws-in-Uber-background-checks-allow-6453865.php?t=128a1259eb7d4f3860&cmpid=email-premium http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/DA-major-flaws-i... The last hyperlink has it and this is them paying the fine http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-settles-lawsuit-with-SF-LA-over-driver-7235244.php http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-settles-lawsuit-... What's odd to me is those 25 apparently were only found because they had been cited by the police. So the 99.9% that weren't cited by the police could have tens of thousands more at least how I understand it
- kakarot 9y agoPlease do not confuse "felons" with violent and sexual offenders. Obviously you do not want to employ people with those kinds of backgrounds in a setting where they could repeat past behaviour, but there is an overwhelming number of felons without violent or sexual records and by denying them employment, you are participating in a system designed to coerce poor, uneducated and misguided individuals into repetitive criminal behavior. If you already understand this distinction between non-violent and violent federal offenders, please consider reflecting it with your choice of words as to not cause further harm to others caught in this system.
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt's ironic that in a post about conflation between violent and non-violent offenders of some class, you seem to have conflated the orthogonal classes of “felons” and “federal offenders”.
- kakarot 9y agoI was not aware of any difference in the terms nor could I find anything on the matter after a quick search. Mind explaining the difference to me?