Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril

Wall Street Journal ^ | February 14, 2013 | James Bovard

[eyedigress]

I’ve employed felons. Even those involved with murder. I do accept help on a case by case nature.

[dalereed]

If we give them a second chance, if they screw up again it should be automatic, instant execution!

[narses]

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[plain talk]

maybe so but given the high unemployment rate and number of people looking for a job, it seems that businesses don’t need to take a chance on an ex-criminal.

[SatinDoll]

My dad had such tests administered to potential employees seeking to work at a nuclear plant he managed.

He actually blocked the employment of two individuals who came highly recommended, all because both men tested were highly functioning psycopaths.

[Secret Agent Man]

sometimes consequences are permanent. there should be jobs they can’t hold based on what they themselves did. hell, some people that don’t have records still can’t qualify for many, many jobs.

[Secret Agent Man]

yes but this country only works with moral people exercising their own self control, that’s why we have so many more criminals today than before. plus they executed far more troublemakers a lot quicker after sentencing so they couldn’ t continue to plague and terrorize the rest of society.

[norton]

The problem with your logic, like the mental condition on gun ownership, is that the bureaucratic definition will likely put murder/rapist on the same level as busted with a baggie.

I'm related to a guy who can't own a gun and can't vote, he's a nice kid, wouldn't hurt a fly or steal a pencil, but his logic and ability to shift responsibility haven't improved from 25 years ago.

PS: Is it racist to dump an employee who can't be bonded?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Ex-cons can be rated on their threat, and once this is done, there are some that are unemployable. But there is a possible solution of states teaming up to create an "ex-con reservation", in a rural part of a host state, for a price.

In essence, a low technology town where they can work to support themselves, and instead of getting individual handouts, they get them as a group, to save money.

The town government are what amounts to ombudsmen, to keep things flowing smoothly. And membership is based on good behavior. If you misbehave you get sent home. Most of what they do is to farm much of their own food.

But they are away from crime, alcohol and drugs, without the intense pressure of the "real world". In particular, a lot of convicts are getting out when they are older or elderly, so this also works as a semi-retirement home for them. But again, the bottom line is not for them, but to save taxpayer money.

[lyby]

Our country is just too big for its own britches...

[Bellflower]

I could be wrong, but I thought that when I was a child criminals had a record for 10 years and if they were clean during that time it was expunged from public records.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Aren’t credit score checks on prospective employees illegal now too?

[cyberstoic]

The testing seems a good idea, until some lawyers decide to take the employer to court because the test will have a disparate impact on some disadvantaged group. It adversely effects the stupid, or people that didn’t study or some minority, etc.

[Chode]

lets face it, the mutt in the white hut could NEVER pass a security clearance...

[Fzob]

Well, expecting logic or reason from a bureaucracy was not my expectation, so any attempt at a rational outcome regarding criminalizing real criminal actions is just a pipe dream.

[DarkWaters]

This will reek havoc on your liability insurance. I wonder if someone in this administration is getting paid off because of this reason. I know Obama likes to go after business, but the reality is he only goes after those who are small or not part of the club, i.e. bribing, hmmm... I mean campaign donations.

[1010RD]

There is some truth to this, though the solution is less welfare, ending teen pregnancy and encouraging marriage.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/pettit_on_the_p.html

[PghBaldy]

Some communities have been more crime-prone since before welfare and the breakdown of the family.