And clearly the AP reporter doesn’t have access to TCIC or NCIC or similar restricted sources, and neither do you, unless your are working the case.
So what’s your point? You and I both know it would take an impossible number of hours and expense for a reporter to perform even a half-assed serious background on 177 persons, many with comon names, across 254 counties.
You are also aware that many Texas counties did not reliably report criminal history convictions, particularly before the last 15-20 years. And then there are data entry errors. And, if you don’t compare fingerprints to a CH file, all that you really have is a possibilty. And in some counties, it was regular practice to destroy criminal and civil case files after a certain number of years, and so, if the convictions were never reported, they are likely forever disappeared.
But enough of that mumbo-jumbo.
The point others are trying to make, and you are quite well aware of this, is that it is remarkable, no matter how you parse it, the number of bikers that don’t have any identifiable criminal history on “public records” databases, (most of which rely on DPS as their primary source) and thus who likely don’t have records on restricted governmental databases either...
And that supports my point that some number of these guys, especially in the Cossack sub-club(s), with the low or no barrier to entry, appear to be non-criminal dupes.
And do not forget, there were 75 guys from other clubs who showed up there that day for some sort of meeting who were also apparently duped.
The point is that its meaningless to keep harping on the supposed lack of criminal records for these guys.
This subject has been debated from every angle numerous times on numerous thread going back for months...mostly because a couple of nut-riders keep puking it back up.
You've been a member here for going on two weeks...do some homework!
“And that supports my point that some number of these guys, especially in the Cossack sub-club(s), with the low or no barrier to entry, appear to be non-criminal dupes.”
You don’t get “duped” into joining an outlaw gang. You’ve got to prospect to get in, it can take months or even years before they trust you, and they will make you commit crimes to prove yourself.
That is, unless the Cossacks were not operating like all the rest of the Outlaw gangs and were more like a “wannabe” operation. I suppose that is a possibility, but the Bandidos seemed to treat them as a threat so I doubt it.
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