
They want so-called, ex-offenders to be able to enter the workplace despite the despicable acts that gave them the Mark of Cain. We are talking about killers, rapists, robbers and thieves. Imagine having a small business and being forced to hire someone that frightens you and your employees?
If they succeed in obtaining this kind of protection, the job seeking felons you turn away will be able to file lawsuits against you.
The majority of felons are career criminals. Some argue that they have no choice but to return to crime because they are denied jobs. I will never claim to know the answer. The answer is not allowing society’s predators to invade your company and then prey on your company’s clients.
I’m requested by people to perform background investigations every day. I inform them that if they tell me in advance that these investigations are for pre-employment purposes I tell them about the tight constraints the FTC places on me and how they can use the information. As a result I get a lot of requests for these investigations for “other” purposes.
Felons do need to have shelter and food like everyone else and today’s information age makes that difficult. Who then has to hire these folks and for what jobs?
I have had to lobby the Arizona Legislature to keep them from letting felons work as private investigators. Allowing felons to be PI’s would be enabling and facilitating professional extortionists into a world where trust is paramount. From time to time I get a celebrity client and learn information that the tabloids would pay me more than the clients did for my services. My personal ethics cause me to work even harder to prevent that kind of a breach. Their secrets must be safe with me. What about people that have a history of ethical failure?
Before fingerprints were used as identification felons could change their name move to another town and get elected as the Sheriff, Mayor or Governor. We were very caviler in the old days. An armed robber would be arrested, have his gun taken, be convicted in court, go to prison and at the expiration of his sentence their guns were actually returned to the felons by prison staffers..
We should be replacing the illegal aliens we’ve not been deporting with felons out in the fields. Felons should be only allowed to work with other convicts or those who don’t have a problem with this group.
As I say this there are those rare exceptions where the crime was a one-time thing and rehabilitation is evident. On a case by case basis business owners may want to take a gamble on hiring someone with an ugly past. That should be the choice of the business owner.
Time periods are often conducive to behavior change. If an offender can stay clean for a decade after release from prison that’s a sign of success. Age is also a factor because often maturity helps reduce impulsive behavior.
I don’t care what happens I will protect my clients from criminals wherever and whenever I can.
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The other is a guy who at 21 got drunk and crashed into a guy's fence. He panicked and ran and filed a false insurance report and police report. He's a felon.
Both of them are great guys and employees. Like all laws, we try to have some "blanket policy" but somebody gets screwed somewhere. It's a shame though.
The problem is the very nature of interviewing and hiring is "discrimination," in the neutral meaning of choosing among candidates on qualifications and aptitudes. The people behind this are taking anti-discrimination to its logical conclusion, but this simply isn't something government should be dictating to the private sector.
Let me begin by informing you of some simple facts. Serious crimes in America are committed by a small minority. Felons by nature are jaded folks that prey on the unsuspecting and helpless. Felons can’t control their urges, tempers or other behavior. Most felons repeat their mistakes and get caught for less than ten percent of their misdeeds.
You say one in three people are convicted felons. Maybe in your family or group of friends that’s true but it’s more like three in a hundred in the real world.
The largest employers in America are the somewhat small family run businesses. That means whoever they hire will be in close proximity to our spouses, children and other family members and sometimes close friends.
Businesses like carpet cleaners, pizza delivery drivers and cable TV installers are sent to people’s homes. Unfortunately criminals often seek these jobs so they van victimize the customers later. I don’t want to put the people who support me to be burglarized, raped or murdered by some felon I hired.
Any clever thief can and do put businesses of any size into Bankruptcy. This happens every day.
No I have no interest in risking my business or the lives of my family to hire you. No government can make me do that.
I’m sorry for the difficulties you made for yourself. I wish you well and perhaps you will be able convince someone to take a risk by hiring you.
No I won’t hire you.
As you get angry and call me a coward I already know you’re dangerous and can’t control yourself. I will take every possible step to protect my business and family from you.
One creep I hired followed home and raped and badly beat one of my customers after braking into her home.
I had no choice but to shut down my place and 34 other workers are without jobs as a result of poor screening.
Felons chose to ruin their own lives. Don’t hire them and let them ruin the lives of others.
Today I tell any politician I can to keep criminals off our streets and in prison where they belong. Euthanasia for anyone convicted of a second felony should be studied.
However most felony convictions involve theft, drugs and property destruction. That's where the failure rate is off the chart.
I am a felon, when I was 18 I rode my motor bike on a dirt road and hit a tree that had fallen over the road, I spent the next 2 weeks in hospital. after I was released I was arrested via warrant for burglary. An uninhabited mobile home, I never set foot in but had the good fortune to crash near, I was interrogated by a detective and he gave me a written statement to sign. I did not read the statement and I signed it because I trusted the detective and was told I would be be released in a few hours. That did not happen. My mother hired an attorney and because I signed a statement I had no recourse. 3 years probation, (cira 1982)
What answer do you have for this ?
I work in corp America, Pay my taxes and support law enforcement.
I have always found employment.
live and let live sometime