> Plus, if that's an issue we want to solve, then make laws that actually target discrimination because of arrest record.
Do you honestly think such laws would be effective?
Do you honestly think such laws would be effective?
If we have not even said that it is wrong, then it's going to happen. Saying that it is wrong and should stop happening is the first incremental step in reducing its rate of occurrence.
The problem is that between two equally qualified candidates, if one has a record and the other is clean, it can be pretty easy to justify just throwing the first one out. And pretty hard to prove that that’s why you were rejected.