One in three adults listed in FBI’s ‘master criminal database’
Amid the outcry over mass incarceration in America, The Wall St. Journal Tuesday maps the school-to-prison pipeline — detailing alarming instances where routine kid stuff — fights, drinking, some pot — now includes a criminal record, thus beginning a lifetime of marginalization.
About 92,000 children in 2012 got misdemeanor weapons possession, disturbing the peace, theft or other charges for actions like participating in a water balloon fight, carrying a small pocket knife, getting in a hallway scuffle, wearing too much perfume, or swiping some chicken nuggets.
Police arrested 250 million people in the last 20 years. One in three Americans are now on the FBI’s master criminal database, WSJ reports.
“This arrest wave, in many ways, starts at school. Concern by parents and school officials over drug use and a spate of shootings prompted a rapid buildup of police officers on campus and led to school administrators referring minor infractions to local authorities.
Arrest records, even when charges are dropped, often trail youngsters into adulthood. Records, especially for teenagers tried as adults, have become more accessible on the Internet, but are often incomplete or inaccurate. Employers, banks, college admissions officers and landlords, among others, routinely check records online.”
http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/10/22/one-in-three-adults-listed-in-fbis-master-criminal-database/
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, the list of prominent Britons to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II. The list was a product of the SS Einsatzgruppen and compiled by Walter Schellenberg. It contained the names of 2,820 people, British subjects and European exiles, living in Britain who were to be immediately arrested if Unternehmen Seelöwe, the invasion of Britain, succeeded.
The original handbook, or "Informationsheft GB" covered geography, economics, political system, government, legal system, administration, military, education system, important museums, press and radio, religion, parties, immigrants, freemasons, Jews, police apparatus and secret service. The "Black Book," as it is known in the tabloid press, was a later appendage and consisted of 104 pages of names listed in alphabetical order. "Fahndungsliste" translates into "wanted list," "Sonderfahndungsliste" into "especially wanted list" or "most wanted list."
Cross-referenced, I'm sure, with the No-Fly List, McCarthy's witch-hunt list, and Nixon's Enemies List?
This is the logic of our "War on Drugs"
...and that the majority of those children (or former children) on the "criminals" list are, just maybe, browner than a paper bag?
But no let's lock up the people who are on drugs. 
