[Ipg-smz] Facebook to hire ex-felons?

[Gabe Goldberg]

So the answer is reforming one police agency at a time. And recognizing 
that even now, not all are armies of occupation.

You're right, cops react when people want to run them over. And people 
want to run them over because they've been victimized by police and 
criminal justice. But not everywhere.

On 4/1/2019 12:48 PM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
> In too many communities, police forces are armies of occupation 
> because that's how they're organized.
>
> I believe in community policing. But it's hard to get people behind it 
> when there's so much gun violence around, and so many people willing 
> to literally run cops over with their cars to stay out of jail. 
> Because the criminal justice system turns people into criminald.
>
> Dana Blankenhorn
> http://www.danablankenhorn.com
> http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/
> http://seekingalpha.com/author/dana-blankenhorn/articles
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:16 PM Stephen Lawton <sl at afab.com 
> <mailto:sl at afab.com>> wrote:
>
>     +1
>
>     *From:*Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org
>     <mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org>] *On Behalf Of *Phil Shapiro
>     *Sent:* Saturday, March 30, 2019 2:42 PM
>     *To:* ipg-smz
>     *Subject:* [Ipg-smz] Facebook to hire ex-felons?
>
>     Facebook to hire ex-felons?
>
>         Not a good idea.  When you mix ex-felons with felons, the rate
>     of recidivism goes up.
>
>     https://www.cbsnews.com/news/priscilla-chan-mark-zuckerberg-wife-wants-to-teach-inmates-how-to-code/
>
>             phil
>
>     All things considered, it's fine for the incarcerated to be given
>     the opportunity to learn coding skills.  But plueeeezzzz,
>
>     don't hire them at Facebook upon their release. They have already
>     paid their debt to society by then.
>
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