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If this is even close to correct (and I'm betting it is) we have a serious problem in the country. The solution seems obvious. Stop arresting for minor drug offenses and victimless crimes like underage alcohol possession. Watch the number go back down to reasonable levels.
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It is possible to get local papers kicked out of Google search results for things like arrests that did not lead to a conviction [which honestly is a 90% solution]. 90% solutions are good enough.
That also sounds 90% good enough to make the media useless. A politician doesn't like an article about his corrupt behavior? Well, he wasn't convicted for anything in the article, so away it goes!
Noted.
One key point with this study is that it only covers people who were born between 1980 and 1984, and follows them through their lives. The summary articles tend to ignore that, and imply the same stats apply to people born in all years.
Do you have reason to believe that people born during that window are particularly jail-prone?
One key point with this study is that it only covers people who were born between 1980 and 1984, and follows them through their lives. The summary articles tend to ignore that, and imply the same stats apply to people born in all years.
Of course, it's still an alarming statistic, but I'd hope it's been going down (along with crime rates) since this data was collected.
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Ya, stuff like that is why we need a right to be forgotten in the US. People tend to see an arrest and leap to conclusions. I say this as a person who has never been arrested. :/
They're the extreme edge cases, but I'm sure George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony would agree 100%
Alot of these kids never have it published that they were acquitted anywhere notable. :/
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Do arrest records show up in background checks by employers?
In Canada, at least, background checks can reveal attempted suicides and dropped charges, unfortunately: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4538747-names-of-420-000...
I find this frankly implausible. What percentage of people you know have been arrested? I'm guessing very small (even assuming that many hide it and so you're knowledge is substantially skewed). So maybe that's because of your high/squeaky-clean socio-economic class? No: imagine yourself in any class you care to. Unless that class is much, much larger than your "real" class, then it would have to have an astronomical…
Not implausible at all. I'm probably in the squeaky clean category. On a day of a meteor shower, I went with some friends to take pictures of the sky. A park ranger arrested us, for being in a national park after dark. After arresting us, he spent 5 mins talking on the radio with some other ranger, then spent 5 mins writing a citation. Paid it in the mail a few weeks later, never heard of it again. It doesn't take mu…
I think that this trend, at least in part, has been influenced by a change in the way that we treat adolescent crime. For example, even when I was a kid (early 90's) you would not get arrested for getting into a fist fight at school. Nowadays, bam; call the cops. Get caught with some pot? Arrested. Get caught performing some petty vandalization? Arrested. Get caught at a party drinking as a minor? Arrested. We arrest…
Well, the people in this study were born in the early 80s. So I'm not sure any modern shifts that you point to are the distinctive factor.
Sounds bad, but assuming an arrest under 23 can happen any time between the ages of, say, 7 and 22, that's actually 2.7% in any given year, or roughly 1 in every 40 male children. It almost certainly points to police officers arresting children en masse in order to discover the real perpetrator rather than any child criminality epidemic.
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Anything that might make someone unemployable that didn't result in a conviction or other defeat in court.
I should have a right to make people forget that I have a bad attitude, never shower and am prone to cursing anyone in my vicinity?
The fact you never shower is not going to get you arrested.