***a third of Americans have been arrested for a crime***
Worth repeating. ARRESTED! not CONVICTED. And no description of what the offense may have been.
The OWSers numbers would have been huge - if the police had been allowed to perform their duty - for all public offenses of every degree.
Some of the ‘new’ laws are directed at normal, law abiding citizens of all ages (as one poster mentioned) i.e. politically correct infractions of recycling, speech, signs and trying to board a plane while white and senile.
‘Worth repeating. ARRESTED! not CONVICTED.’
That is a distinction without a difference to most employers.
This is another reason young people have trouble getting a job these days.