There are more jailbirds in the US than anywhere else in the world. More than 2 million of them and that’s just those current lot. Those who have served out their time and released are further millions but the really troubling thing is that these people often return to crime and the trend seems to be from bad to worse from one year to the next. We simply cannot be too careful as we cross path with increasingly more people in our modern living.

While public security and enforcement do their part, it would be foolhardy not to be on our own guard too. One initiative we can take is by making use of government public records. Yes, there are Free Public Police Records readily available to anybody to search out the background of anyone we are suspicious of or uneasy about whether they are new acquaintance, strangers, neighbors, colleagues or whatever. All that’s needed is a full name and a speculative state or county of residence.

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