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The thing I don't understand is why the mugshots are being published in the first place in the US. Like it or not, the internet is a permanent record so that mu
by casperc 13y ago
The thing I don't understand is why the mugshots are being published in the first place in the US. Like it or not, the internet is a permanent record so that mugshot of you at your worst time (but not convicted of anything), will be out there forever in some capacity if it gets published.
- AJ007 13y agoA little common sense trumps all of these other elaborate comments. Why are mugshots publicized? To intimidate people. It means the police can coerce someone in to doing something with the threat of an arrest. The NYTimes seems to be blaming private site owners who have added a little SEO juice, whereas county and government websites usually are written so poorly as to barely be crawl-able. The police are the ones publishing these mugshots online, the other sites are just re-organizing them to be a little more Google bot friendly.