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Is there any benefit to adding on to the list?
1) Dirty nukes, 2) Hazardous waste, 3) Toxic drinking water, 4) Subway chemical leak, 5) Robbing banks w/ explosive jackets, 6) Die Hard One, 7) Die Hard Two, ... "(Later the idiosyncratic Salvador Dalí explained it as: "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.")" I remember a time when police would actually wait for a crime to occur. The only thing background checks provide is another source of income for those affilliated with law enforcement groups. {Edited to add final thoughts on the matter: If BC were free, the whole idea wouldn't fly. But at $80 a pop, who's the crook?} Is it really safe for police to plant surrealistic images in such a very public manner? |
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Correctly managed, background checks can and have proved very useful in the amateur sports arena. Locally, they have uncovered at least three officials with convictions of deviant sexual behavior, and on the west side of the state a couple of youth coaches with child molesting backgrounds have been exposed. That said, that isn't what the MLB umpires are opposed to. |
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Our nations youth need to be protected against these types of predators. |
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I'm a bit confused about the fingerprinting part. It's as if they're expecting them to change. In addition to that backgournd check for teaching, I undergo background checks every two years for my officiating activities separately. Since the years don't align, I end up undergoing a background check annually. And they still haven't caught me.:D |
"In Northern Virginia earlier this month a high school Spanish teacher who also coached the girls and boys track and field teams was arrested for attempting to arrange sex with minor over the internet."
The unfortunate thing is that, unless this teacher had ever been caught/arrested for a similar crime, a standard background check would have revealed nothing. That is, it would have done absolutely nothing to "protect our youth from this type of predator". |
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2 classes of Computer Applications and three classes of Marketing Management. I have 14 endorsements (Washington's term for teaching certificate). |
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However, for reasons known only to them, many predators with records continue to try to work with youth and do get caught by background checks. As I posted above, we have had a couple turn up on background checks here in Spokane and a few on the west side of the state. |
Wisconsin teaching credentials (license) require two sets of fingerprints: One to the FBI for a check, the other for the WI state police.
Irony since WIAA (Wisc., not Wash.) has no background check. Soooo, all you predators, come on by!!! The MLB umpires should tell their neighbors to answer 'yes' to all questions. |
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Our fingerprints are done digitally now, so they take them once and can send them to numerous agencies. NCIC or National Crime Information Center, one of the check we go through, is the data base the FBI uses. The MiLB umpires, below Triple A, have yet to agree to these background checks. |
Checking for a record of serious sex offenses (or violent felonies) is one thing, but (from the article) what does KKK membership have to do with protecting youth from predators? The great liberal icon Hugo L. Black belonged to the Klan. So did Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Should umpires be asked whether they ever belonged to the Communist Party? Whether they own a gun or hunt? Whether they favor affirmative action? Whether they eat meat or wear fur? Whether they ever used illegal drugs? Should all umpires have to be adjudged politically correct? |
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They're looking for people who can be targeted for blackmail.
If a "bad guy" finds something out about you that you didn't want to be made public, you might do something that you normally wouldn't to keep it a secret. |
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I'm just wondering how deviant a guy can be working in "A" with 35 some players and probably a few hundred fans in the stands. While I don't condone any type of illegal behavior...sounds like a money making scheme to me...it's not necessary.
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I think this New York City detective should be placed on the "do not assign" list:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01....prostitution/ |
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Or, how about the basketball coach in Lynwood, Washington, or the softball coach in Spokane, or the soccer coach in Florida...they all ply their trade in front of multiple players, parents and fans. They find a way, outside of the arena, to have contact with someone with whom they have built a trust due to their position and contact with them. Be it in a parking lot, locker room, coaches home, player's home...or in one case in Spokane, on a public sidewalk...the truly deviant find a way. Background checks won't completely put an end to a deviant's behavior, but they will help limit his contact with potential victims and alert the public to the potential danger. |
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Garth B & mbyron have hit the nail on the head.
Based on being invloved in law enforcement for the last eighteen years, and officiating for the last seven (though this is my first post!:D ), background checks are a "necessary evil" and first defense for many professions and avocations. I'd rather be discussing the merits of patent leather! AR |
If I read the news reports correctly, what is being done with the MLB umpires is not (just) a criminal background check. It involves interviewing neighbors, asking about affiliations (e.g. KKK), etc. In other words, it is a rumor-mongering check. JMO.
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I have a friend who was back when he finished grad school and applied for a security clearance to do some government work. Someone called me and asked me about the guy's sexual activity. Would that be appropriate in the umpires' background check? |
Get a load of this. Now Jesse Jackson's in the act.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327348,00.html |
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Reportedly, MLB feels they need to question any area that could indicate an umpire is vulnerable to bribes or blackmail. An out-of-the-closet gay man would not, by the fact he is gay, be so subjected. However, could a closeted gay man be vulnerable to such activities. I don't know. I supposes it could depend on the reaspons he remains closeted and how emotionally and financially attached he is to remaining closeted. My very best friend with whom my wife and I shared a house during grad school is an out-of-the-closet gay man. With that experience and having been a music major, taking several drama courses, making part of my living acting for three years, and working in the ad biz in San Francisco...I am not unfamiliar with both sides of that issue. (I know, I know, I'm guilty of stereotyping. Sorry.) Despite what I tell my students, I don't have all the answers.:D I'm not sure where I would land on this one at the present time. |
For a long time, homosexuality automatically disqualified men from certain sensitive positions, blackmail being the primary concern. (Remember also that until fairly recently, homosexuality was considered a mental aberration or even an illness, so it was felt that applicants might be unreliable, whether or not the job had a sensitive nature. The American Psychological Association has since changed its position on homosexuality, but privately many psychiatrists and psychologists still hold the older position.) A man known to be homosexual would not be hired by the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, and so on. During World War II, a man could avoid service by what was called "declaring himself," though in doing so he took great risk. This certainly does not mean that homosexuals did not work in sensitive jobs or fight in WW II.
It is suspected that when Joseph N. Welch said to Senator Joseph McCarthy, "I should say, Mr. Senator, that a pixie is a close relative of a fairy. Shall I proceed, sir? Have I enlightened you?" he was trying to needle McCarthy about rumors that McCarthy was homosexual. After all, McCarthy had sent Roy Cohn and G. David Shine to "investigate" subversives working in Europe, but most of their "work" consisted of partying together. In the 1950s, exposure of McCarthy as homosexual would have forced him out of the public eye. Officially, homosexuals are now protected from discrimination in hiring. Officially. |
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Then it never happens...if they're protected...whatever.
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