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How many criminals live in your neighborhood?

Recently I happened to be talking to someone about how important it was to know if you have an active arrest warrant. What this person told me took me by surprise and it turned my thinking on it's head.

I know how embarrassing it can be when the police come and arrest you without warning. Not to mention the stress, upset, loss of work and the financial implications that are involved. It hasn't happened to me but I know someone who has experienced it. One way to try and avoid this situation is to do regular background checks so that you can spot any warrants early enough to get a lawyer to help you to give yourself up and straighten things out.

If you get a warrant and move state then you don't get caught

I must have touched a nerve in the stranger that I was talking to because what he said to me next left me speechless. He laughed and told me that both he and his wife both had active arrest warrants in a different state and they simply moved to avoid them. Apparently they had warrants in other states dating back years and they haven't been caught yet.

It's too expensive to enforce arrest warrants across states

He explained to me that police departments aren't keen to chase people once they move out of the state that they committed the offence in. Apparently it's too expensive to cooperate with other police departments and I guess "out of state - out of mind".

Then the person confessed to me that both he and his wife had warrants in another state from years back and the've never been caught. Now I was worried! The thought that it was possible for criminals to avoid capture like this was one thing but someone openly discussing it with me was something else entirely.

Anyone in your area could have an active arrest warrant

You probably thought that most criminals get caught sooner or later which meant that the chances of you coming in contact with them was low. This is what I thought too but the conversation with this stranger has opened my eyes. There could be a lot more people with criminal records or arrest warrants living in your area than you thought.

Protect yourself by knowing who the criminals are

After this conversation I was worried and you should be too. I wanted to find out who and where the criminals were so that I could take steps to protect myself. You can find a lot of background information about someone by going online and using a public records web site. You can find out if someone has arrest warrants or a criminal record. You can also find out if they are married - useful if you are dating them - or bankrupt and many other things that you can use to make sure someone is who they say they are and that they aren't hiding something from you.


When I started to do background checks on people online I found that there were 2 people in my area that had warrants in states across the country. I knew their names but I never had any contact with them so I now make sure that I keep it that way.

I now make it a habit to check out anyone before I hire them to do any work for me and it's lucky that I did because one contractor that quoted me for repairing my roof had a warrant in another state. I assumed that he would probably take my money and either do a bad job or no job at all. He didn't get the job even though he was the most impressive of the contractors that quoted.


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