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Re:More than 8,000 ride-share drivers flunked Mass. backgrou... by alpha_squared on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:49PM (#14045958)
> Nearly all people on the sex offender registry actually did something that justifies being on there.

Citation? I don't necessarily doubt it's true, but 'nearly all' can be completely relative. I'd like to see actual numbers for a statement like that.

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Re:More than 8,000 ride-share drivers flunked Mass. backgrou... by pdelbarba on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:03PM (#14046050)
As far as I'm concerned, just 1% is enough for me to question whether this is a reasonable metric and 10% would be "this is utter garbage"
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Re:More than 8,000 ride-share drivers flunked Mass. backgrou... by alpha_squared on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:08PM (#14046099)
Indeed, of the things I've read, the sex offender registry is quite flawed.[0]

[0] https://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2013/09/02/the-wrongfull...

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