How The Internet Turns Your Mugshot Into A Creepy Business - Cracked Explains 

Can Doodle Probably him or Swaim

Can Doodle they did a personal experience article on this. They turned that article into a video. I still loved both the video and the article

The truth is it could be anyone arrested in the last decade or so and it's a miscarriage of justice. My husband got pulled over and arrested because he was designated driver and before going out drinking a friend's of a friend had robbed a house so the cops arrests everyone in the vehicle, all 8 guys. My husband is army and has top secret clearance for his job. Fortunately, he was able to explain it to his commander and because he was the being a responsible NCO by being the DD he was able to pass it off as privates (e-1 to e-3 rank) are stupid but it could have devastated his military career. Despicable!

I love how this had 506 like and zero dislikes lol everyone agrees

This^ comment was a lie, as usual.

+ Critical Hit How is it a lie?

quantumperception That's what I was thinking as well.

This is why broadcast tv is dying, becuase they won't do stuff like this.

dangerouslytalented they do in the uk

I’m sure I could write an entire paper, just chronicling how Cracked Magazine, a publication that started out, according to my mother, as the even more low-brow kid brother of Mad Magazine, became one of the most hard-hitting vanguards of American journalism, in a time when even reputable news publications are being swayed by corporate fudging, hearsay, and duplicitous bad-faith representatives... and all this change happened seemingly overnight. It’s like if the Garbage Pail Kid cards became the only media source you could trust. I’m sure there’s a fascinating story behind how this shift occurred, but I’m lazy and hate research. If I had to guess though... it probably started with hiring more female editors.

AcetylsaliciIique DEMOCRACY!!!!!

AcetylsaliciIique I don't think this is an American only thing.

AcetylsaliciIique Freedom?

Noah Smith Freedom doesn't mean you're entitled of doing whatever you want. I am not free to come to your house with a crowbar and break your kneecaps.

Firstly, 100 more "thumbs up." Hey, Warden Eternal. interestingly, in Canada, our privacy laws forbid releasing this kind of information by police unless they can prove a strong public safety case. Yes, freedom IS great. Tell me which other free countries display this private info? Many Americans seem to think that the weird crap that goes on there is common throughout the world: you would be surprised.

Mama MOB Especially since you were a minor, that's even worse.

Not sure if it's on any of the sites since it happened in the 90's but who knows. I know i'm not ganna go look.

Usually when it's a minor all the stuff is sealed so unless a judge orders someone to see it they can't. It's to protect minors. Like how unless the victim or their family say so, child victims never have their identities shown.

Heather Butt ok then change the age to 18 and reapply the question. What public service is others having access to this photo doing? None.

Even if you were charged, it’s stupid to publically humiliate anyone for the rest of their life

The Bastard, RU-vid Villain what does stigmatise mean?

I'm on to you John Smith

Yes, it is a big part of the problem in America, I have noticed. Guilty until proven innocent. Arrested for something? You must be guilty. Accused of something, especially more than once? Must be guilty. In some cases, even the courts have gone on that line. Like with the recent COX case, where internet service provider COX lost Safe Harbor because the court felt that the companies bombarding them with DMCA takedown notices (which is ACCUSATIONS of copyright infringements) against their customers is the same as their customers having definitely broken the law. They read "repeat infringement" in the DMCA to mean "repeat accusation" instead of "repeated convictions". Which is funny to me as an outsider, since US is just about the only place where you hear people shout "we got JUSTICE" or "we bring JUSTICE". True justice is to dig a little deeper than the surface, look at the facts and see what really happen, build your opinion on the final answer and not just take things at face value for a swift conclusion. A bullet may be fast, but it's better to catch a fish with a rod than a rifle.

The Bastard, RU-vid Villain I have a very uncommon name and things in my distant past that are making it nearly impossible to find work. You’ve actually got me considering a legal name change to something really common.

The right to be forgotten is real and one I wish Americans would fight for. Americans claim to care about "freedom" but have no respect for privacy or being told to mind their own business ever.

Ko Mag Bro this isn't YIAY

Son: Dad what happened to the roses? Dad: Son... I can't plant the roses... Son: ... dad why do you even plant the roses right beside the our front door? Dad: well this is why I hate you. What do you think what happens next?

+The Fisken roses are dead violets are dead my son is also dead

+Tim TheFoodDude *Forehead joke joke*

+The Fisken "What do you think what happens next?" I don't know, because it didn't make any sense :/ -_-

Not even then... because you'll need to reinsert this people in society at some point, and you don't want to make it hard. If this young dude drives drunk and gets convicted for a week, then he cannot get a job, that's completely ridiculous.

I think the argument for taking mugshots and for making them publicly accessible is, as Dan said in the video, an insurance against you being arrested and vanished by corrupt police. Publicly accessible doesn't have to mean readily available from a Google search, though. Obviously.

Maybe just make it so only a government organization is allowed to publish/spread the mugshot on request, and make it illegal to make money off a mugshot. You'd then need to request the specific mugshot you want and you are not allowed to make it public yourself or sell it.

Freedom of Information Act. Benefits far outweigh the costs.

Yeah all those people who got convicted for stealing a $20 t-shirt or having a small bag of pot when they were 18 definitely should have there mugshot online for the rest of time...

Izzy Williams xD

Your day must have sucked

themarquess yeah but because of some foolish people in the uk we are about to leave the EU :(

That only is effective if you can take the time to find every URL with your mugshot, hope none of them have redirections set up and then pray another site doesn't post the image afterwards.

@@teethgrinder83 EU is a joke, now the UK doesn't have to carry the whole Union on it's back while being spat on.

@@sirtickleshitz yeah yeah Edit-also I think you'll find Germany and France plays quite a large role in the EU-we certainly didn't carry the whole EU on our backs. But I'm not going to argue, it's pointless

@@teethgrinder83 yeah yeah, sounds more like you don't know how to explain it. Considering UK had 2nd largest GDP behind the back broken Germany.

*plane great quote, thank you

Also, it was a very good video.

And in a digitalized-technologically focused country/world, all of these things are stacked against you in addition to your state of being at war with yourself, and living alone in a society of less forgiving and understanding of one's neighbors and their struggles. Every aspect and so many potential opportunities of one's life... You need a job, you need an opportunity to rent a house or the opposite end of the income scale and someone who is struggling to get the food stamps they need to get nutrition requirements to uphold the job and ensure the health and stability needed to do so. Jail and prison were supposedly created to be punishment and rehabilitation, but they don't, they're established to make profits off of unfortunate individuals that get trapped in their systemized entanglement within the monetization of destruction of people's identities and overall wellbeing. What have we established the criminal system for?....? Is it working?..? For whom? Is that just/justice ⚖️? Should we discuss making some changes to better utilize ALL OF THE RESOURCES that we are dumping into these (financially succeeding!), but overall, failed industries and practices for our neighborhoods and society? Compare ours to other countries, even, especially with ones that are focused on the rehabilitation aspects instead...?..? * Or even be able to discuss things with each other appropriately, such as can someone who has killed someone exist (appropriately) in society? * Or are they forever damaged and deemed as unwell, unsafe, or even unemployable? * Reminder to everyone to please, never to forget about the "case-to-case basis"... Everyone is an individual and dealing with his/her own struggles, some that we can relate with, and some that we may never even be able to imagine. ✌️&❤️ & ⚖️

Look closer. The whole world is cracked.

Dude, their site name is "cracked" so no fucking shit their map is "cracked"

11:17 he says so you can't be secretly arrested and kept in a cell without anyone knowing about it. Thus prevent America from becoming a police state.

if you live in the states you know that ''middle class'' doesn't exist. There's lower, upper lower, and higher class, with 99% being in the first two

***** m8, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, anything else is just divide and conquer on behalf of teh latter

So if I'm wealthy this isn't a problem for me?

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Mike Mac should be.....but would it?

Mike Mac then the company won't make profit from having the person pay lots of money trying to remove it. At least not the hundreds they receive from their unethical business practice they'd just get add money.

Or you could spread stuff like this video so that potential employers can see it. If they know these sites are bullshit and run by amoral assholes they almost certainly use them. And no need to get the government involved where they don't belong.

Good luck trying to enforce that. Especially with sites who have a domain outside of America.

ok, what is the easier solution then, changing the opinions and attitudes of the government to be pro censorship, or the opinions and attitudes of everyone to be pro crime... Love living in the UK at least all we have to worry about is stupid degenerates wanting Brexit and the wash that vote was, rather than Hillary, Trump and a messed up corrupt law enforcement and government.

Rose BPOS Even if your idea was made into law, you can bet those sites would set up some insane requirements to get mug shots taken down at the request of anyone less than a judge or lawyer. It's how the loan shark business is still going in spite of laws trying to shut them down.

Well, there are already a wide variety of opinions about that, but I don't disagree that we should go easier on people convicted of crimes. However, these websites do not list the crime, nor is it in their interest to do so; if they did, they would drastically reduce their leverage over people who were arrested for either something they didn't do, or for something widely regarded as harmless. That leverage is their bread and butter. So while I agree with your suggestion, I don't think it would really solve this particular problem.

+Jane Doe By loan sharks, you mean insurance companies, who are supported by the federal government.

MrARKY89 I mean companies like Quicken Loan that promise a quick and easy loan now, then add on as much interest as possible. They set such high terms expecting the customer to be unable to pay the loan off any time soon. Even better if they come back for more loans because that's more profit. Fail to pay, and you can expect daily reminder calls which may or may not include threats.

Hard to sue someone from another country. Especially if you can't even find who owns the website. Oh and you have to be able to take the time and have to money to pay an attorney to sue them. Didn't you watch the video?