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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 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.

>>geff82+(OP)
Or they only got busted for a joyride but not the 12 B&Es and embezzlement. False signals.

>>geff82+(OP)
Uh, 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.

>>geff82+(OP)
Uh, 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.

>>greens+m5
Which also undermines the usefulness of judging based on criminal record...

>>jmcdie+Xb
How 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.

>>justad+N2
And 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

>>aeorgn+Bh
Why? 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...