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Interesting, quote that stood out:"Someone without an arrest may simply be a person who has never gotten caught".

That only 40% of business owners would consider hiring a ex-criminal also makes one wonder how many employers in general tend to lump all ex-cons in the same basket when assessing potential business risk (e.g. serial murderer vs thief/drug dealer, 1x vs multiple offender, etc).




Or, quite likely: has been caught but given multiple chances.

Look at the news out of Ferguson, MO, and particularly Tanesi Coates story on systematic corruption and focused arrests and prosecution of minorities / poor:

"The Gangsters of Ferguson" http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/The-Gang...

The "focus on revenue" was almost wholly a focus on black people as revenue. Black people in Ferguson were twice as likely to be searched during a stop, twice as likely to receive a citation when stopped, and twice as likely to be arrested during the stop, and yet were 26 percent less likely to be found with contraband. Black people were more likely to see a single incident turn into multiple citations. The disparity in outcomes remained "even after regression analysis is used to control for non-race-based variables."


And keep in mind that 40% SAY they will hire. As seen in polls about racism (even anonymous polls) the actual number is probably a lot lower.


Though that's probably mitigated to an extent by many employers not bothering to check.


I'm wondering how insurance works here - will your legal insurance cover you if you hire those convicted of crimes?

If you want to play the game of capitalism well, ie win more of the profit, then you can't let humanity encroach on that. For better or worse.




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