You might expect this to be so, but systemic loopholes, regulatory breakdowns, and specific rehabilitation pathways have historically allowed a small number of individuals with felony records to enter law enforcement:

1. Remote Village Law Enforcement (Regulatory Breakdowns)
The most prominent, documented systemic hiring of criminals as police occurred in isolated communities.

2. Plea Bargains and "Charged vs. Convicted" Loopholes
Many officers who commit felony-level actions are able to stay on the force or get hired by other departments because they are never technically convicted of a felony.

3. Absolute Expungement, Pardons, and Restoration of Rights
In rare individual cases, former felons have successfully overturned their legal status to become police officers through years of rehabilitation and legal intervention.

In addition, you may recall that In his role as the 47th president of the United States (January 20, 2025 – present), Donald Trump granted executive clemency to more than 1,700 individuals as of June 11, 2026, all of whom were charged or convicted of federal criminal offenses This included a blanket pardon of some 1,500 individuals associated with the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

Moreover, President Donald Trump has pardoned at least 600 individuals whose cases involved violent felony charges or explicit acts of violence, the overwhelming majority of which were granted via his sweeping January 20, 2025, blanket clemency order.

I call this dependency on cloud-provided AI systems cloud slavery.
And its dependents are slaves to their new AI cloud masters.

So what happens when you paint it with Vantablack?

Most people under 50 don't pay much attention to the news. People such as yourself are the minority. The majority are primarily entertainment consumers. Fact consumers such as you are a small sample of voters, like it or not. The challenge is motivating and messaging the indifferent majority without alienating the fact-driven and motivated minority...because democracy is a game of getting the most total votes.

If they can get this done you can be sure they'll try to invent ways to prevent "unfriendly" news providers from being on the Internet. Most Internet providers are small and lack sufficient money, legal representation and political influence. It would actually be pretty easy for the government to convince their Internet service providers to deny their access and get their domains removed from DNS. If Russia and China can do it, so can the U.S.

And Brexit worked splendidly for Britain, right?
Right...?

They prefer the shorter "Fake News!"
This crew's creed is "Perception is reality."
By controlling the information you receive they seek to control your perception of reality.
This is the goal of propaganda.
This is how they manufacture consent.
Reject it. Demand a fact-based reality.

Yeah, nobody lives there anymore.
It's too crowded.

h/t to Yogi Berra.

So we're taking a superior, simpler power source and drive chain and adding a fake clutch to make it simulate an older, inferior power source and drive chain.
Brilliant. In 25 years people will look at these and wonder "what the hell were they thinking?"

I guess Ohio Man is now in competition with Florida Man.

There is no excusing a pathological liar who repeatedly tells lies to deceive people with a financial stake in their company.

In the "grand scheme of things" this scheme is straight-up corruption.
The value of the emolument is only relevant to the severity of the criminal sentence.

Suckers.

It's said a sucker is born every minute but that clearly underestimates the size of the sucker pool.

You cannot predict whether your children will be able or willing to do a particular job. You cannot predict their aptitudes, interests, or fitness. The best you can do is help them figure out what they can or cannot do and encourage and support them to maximize their outcomes.

Space Junk by DEVO