This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CCC.2ACE/2983.1.2.1 Message Board Post: > Just what is so hard about beliving that someone that has > been incarcerated for a felony, could BECOME a > POLICEMAN later in life, is there some reason that people > can't change there lifes for the better, Our is that just the > way you think. Well if it is the way you think I fell sorry for > you. You have taken the wrong impression on what I said. EVERY local, city, state and Federal agency bars people from serving in law enforcement after having a felony conviction. You CAN NOT get a job, period. It is not something that I have a say one way or another, it is law. It is also against rootsweb policy to make a personal attack on a person, especially if you're wrong. If he did have such a record and was so impressive that they were able to make special allowances for him, so much he better for him...