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Why do they only look for criminal CONVICTIONS in background checks?


If you were a crook and had a good lawyer you could get off.

Yes, you might get off on a technicality and not look back, but let me ask you this: what if you were wrongly accused of a crime and then acquitted? It wouldn't be fair to have to disclose your arrest, would it?

We live in a country in which you are innocent until proven guilty.

Plus, I think your logic is a little flawed anyway. Yeah, if you had a good lawyer you could get off, but mere arrests wouldn't be a good measuring stick for honesty anyway. I mean, how many crimes are committed in which the guilty party is never caught? Lots and lots.

Under US law unless you have been convicted of a crime then you did not commit the crime.

If somebody made a false allegation against you would you want it showing up on a background check?

Because a conviction is the only thing that matters. If you got off there is a reason. What if you didn't do the crime and you had it put on record anyway even though you got out of a conviction for it. That would suck.

If you were not found guilty then you are innocent. That's the law. Otherwise, it becomes subjective.

But unless you're convicted of the crime your record is clean. It wouldn't be fair to punish people found not guilty.

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