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The good thing about people with a criminal record: you know what they did! You will never know this of the people around you who got away not being caught. Do
by geff82 9y ago
The good thing about people with a criminal record: you know what they did! You will never know this of the people around you who got away not being caught. Do I know if my neighbour did not rob a bank 10 years ago? No. So working with ex-criminals can be an encounter with honesty.
- rapind 9y agoOr they only got busted for a joyride but not the 12 B&Es and embezzlement. False signals.
- justadeveloper2 9y agoUh, no you don't. A lot of cases get plead down and the cops/DAs are lazy and often don't charge people with crimes they're not sure they can successfully prosecute. That's why there's so many "non-violent drug offenders" in prison all over. Yeah, most of those people were up to no good but got taken down for something less serious.
- zerg2k 9y agoAnd a lot of people are forced to a plea after being overcharged and put through a very long crippling (financially and mentally) process while for the DA/cops is just another day to go to work
- greenshackle2 9y agoUh, you don't know what the ex-con hasn't been caught for either. Maybe they got away with murder 10 years ago, but where only caught for their petty theft 5 years later.
- jmcdiesel 9y agoWhich also undermines the usefulness of judging based on criminal record...
- aeorgnoieang 9y agoHow is that? It seems reasonable to believe, all else being equal, that someone that's been convicted of a crime has committed more crimes than someone that hasn't been convicted.
- jmcdiesel 9y agoWhy? Being caught committing a crime is less a sign of committing a crime but in doing it in a way that got you caught. Serial committers often go years uncaught... from petty burglars to assaulters.. a lot of people get caught their first time, its the ones who dont get caught that are more dangerous...