From the Rose Law Group Reporter Growlery
“The most unforgettable character I’ve ever met” was the theme of a recurring series of articles in Readers Digest. The time seems to have come for a series of articles called “The most unforgettable character defects we have come to know this decade.”
In the wake of recent police brutality cases and stories of football players who were and might be multi-million dollar character risks, we are asking if there’s any way bad actors can be detected before they take the stage.
Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriot who was convicted last week of first-degree murder and faces trial in two other murders, had displayed serious character flaws as far back as high school, and yet his NFL team was more concerned with winning.
At any cost, it turns out.
Some might think the shadowing of former Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston off the football field is a violation of privacy, but the kid’s past character faiings have upped the ante on due diligence.
More urgent is the concern over law enforcement officers who have lost their trained cool and unjustifiable killed men suspected of committing crimes. What more can any government law enforcement organization do to prevent such tragedies? Strap cop applicants down for a character detection test?
Let’s acknowledge it’s impossible, even with known precurosrs, to accurately predict someone will abuse or go postal. But it’s not impossible to trade a winning is everything attitude — be it in athletics or crime fighting — for one of caution and overdue diligence.
Were “1984” author George Orwell still living, he might be prompted to predict the day when all newborns will be scanned by a computer that predicts whether each person will be a miscreant or a good citizen.
