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OH - Convicted Sex Offender, Drug Dealer Hired As Traffic Cop

View the article here Give me a break! A sex offender, gets a job, and it becomes headline news! Out comes the vigilante media and mob! The more stable someones life is, the less likely they are to commit another crime. You add stress to their life, and that increases the risk of another crime and/or victim. So do you want to help prevent crime, or cause it? 01/31/2009 CLEVELAND - Controversy is surround a new hire by the Cleveland Police Department after a convicted felon became a traffic controller for the city. Lorenzo Shepherd spent years behind bars for being a drug dealer and sex offender, but now he's being given a second chance through a program operated by the U.S. Attorney's Office. Over three decades, Shepherd has been arrested, charged and convicted of more than a dozen crimes, from theft, to drug trafficking, to rape...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 01, 2009 (boomark / email).