Criminal background checks are used to find out if people have a criminal past and if they can be trusted to work for their companies. They are designed to make judgmental decisions. Its getting to know people on a piece of paper. What if background checks were done before the criminal convictions? Wow. Then maybe we would have knew about the military officer that killed people in Fort Hood. Hmmm. Maybe Bernie Madoff would not have stolen billions of dollars. Maybe the bombings on 9/11 would not have happened. The sheriff that got busted running the meth lab would not been sheriff in the first place. The list goes on and on. The point is that these people didn't have felonies until they were caught....when it was too late. So typical of us. Thats the difference between the "trusted" person and the felon.....being caught, but what they have in common is they want the good life and are willing to do anything to have it.
If background checks were done on a non violent offender what would it show? For the drug dealer, what if the background showed that he barely paid his bills and struggles, not the fancy car lavish life that is depicted on television. What if he didn't accept money for his drugs and just got people high for free? Would he still be the scum of the earth? What if prostitutes had sex for free? Would it still be a crime or just called free love like in the 1960's? The point is background checks don't tell anything about a person because there are people with no record at all that are the most notorious people that exist (i.e. politicians, celebs, etc). Really background checks are used to keep a specific social class at bay.
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