RETHINKING THE 'CRIMINAL' EXCLUSION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

RETHINKING CRIMINAL EXCLUSION: hire the less than perfect ones! Who better could be hired in law enforcement than someone who has already gone to jail or prison? The adage, "It takes one to know one," is particularly apt for law enforcement officials. Who better to ferret out the real criminals? Therefore laws and regulations that exclude persons from that field, or any other, without more, are counterproductive and wrong. Corruption, selective enforcement and disparate treatment already exist, overwhelmingly, among those presently employed "perfect ones" without records; that is all the more reason to hire the "less than perfect" ones!