I’m sure I could write an entire paper, just chronicling how Cracked Magazine, a publication that started out, according to my mother, as the even more low-brow kid brother of Mad Magazine, became one of the most hard-hitting vanguards of American journalism, in a time when even reputable news publications are being swayed by corporate fudging, hearsay, and duplicitous bad-faith representatives... and all this change happened seemingly overnight. It’s like if the Garbage Pail Kid cards became the only media source you could trust. I’m sure there’s a fascinating story behind how this shift occurred, but I’m lazy and hate research. If I had to guess though... it probably started with hiring more female editors.
I wouldnt mind more serious content like this seems like it hit kind of home, which one of the cracked crew has a mugshot floating around out there? Is it Soren?... i bet it's soren
The truth is it could be anyone arrested in the last decade or so and it's a miscarriage of justice. My husband got pulled over and arrested because he was designated driver and before going out drinking a friend's of a friend had robbed a house so the cops arrests everyone in the vehicle, all 8 guys. My husband is army and has top secret clearance for his job. Fortunately, he was able to explain it to his commander and because he was the being a responsible NCO by being the DD he was able to pass it off as privates (e-1 to e-3 rank) are stupid but it could have devastated his military career. Despicable!
When i was 16 i was arrested for assault. Until the cops heard what happened. I was NEVER charged with any crime but they did take my mugshot. What public service is others having access to this photo doing? None.
Usually when it's a minor all the stuff is sealed so unless a judge orders someone to see it they can't. It's to protect minors. Like how unless the victim or their family say so, child victims never have their identities shown.
Great video. Reminds me of something from Last Week Tonight. I would love to see more of these issue pieces. Perhaps not the funniest video from cracked, but worth watching.
I know it'll never happen, but if we didn't stigmatize people for simply being arrested, these parasites wouldn't have a business model. For the record, yes, I have multiple arrests for traffic related offenses, and one for possession, but my name is so common that no one could ever google me anyway.
Yes, it is a big part of the problem in America, I have noticed. Guilty until proven innocent. Arrested for something? You must be guilty. Accused of something, especially more than once? Must be guilty. In some cases, even the courts have gone on that line. Like with the recent COX case, where internet service provider COX lost Safe Harbor because the court felt that the companies bombarding them with DMCA takedown notices (which is ACCUSATIONS of copyright infringements) against their customers is the same as their customers having definitely broken the law. They read "repeat infringement" in the DMCA to mean "repeat accusation" instead of "repeated convictions". Which is funny to me as an outsider, since US is just about the only place where you hear people shout "we got JUSTICE" or "we bring JUSTICE". True justice is to dig a little deeper than the surface, look at the facts and see what really happen, build your opinion on the final answer and not just take things at face value for a swift conclusion. A bullet may be fast, but it's better to catch a fish with a rod than a rifle.
The Bastard, UA-cam Villain I have a very uncommon name and things in my distant past that are making it nearly impossible to find work. You’ve actually got me considering a legal name change to something really common.
The right to be forgotten is real and one I wish Americans would fight for. Americans claim to care about "freedom" but have no respect for privacy or being told to mind their own business ever.
I think this is my new favorite quote: "I think the ease of understanding with which we employ 'It makes sense from a business stand-point' these days, is deeply troubling. Because it implies on our part, a tasked complicity in a system where practices that we all acknowledge to be inherently unfair and morally bankrupt, are okay because “business” as a concept, exists in a separate plain divorced from any sense of decency where making the most money at the fastest rate trumps literally anything else." - Daniel O’Brien
This is basically a John Oliver bit with fewer gags, higher information density, and a lower budget. Which, btw, is mostly a compliment. Keep up the good work, Dan.
I had a mug shot up for a while and yes the charges were dropped but i still have to deal with it. People in US believe in guilt even if proven innocent
I've really fallen in love with cracked, did not expect to find this to be such valuable channel for great information. And great satire. Don't ever so guys, much love!
Not even then... because you'll need to reinsert this people in society at some point, and you don't want to make it hard. If this young dude drives drunk and gets convicted for a week, then he cannot get a job, that's completely ridiculous.
I think the argument for taking mugshots and for making them publicly accessible is, as Dan said in the video, an insurance against you being arrested and vanished by corrupt police. Publicly accessible doesn't have to mean readily available from a Google search, though. Obviously.
Maybe just make it so only a government organization is allowed to publish/spread the mugshot on request, and make it illegal to make money off a mugshot. You'd then need to request the specific mugshot you want and you are not allowed to make it public yourself or sell it.
Yeah all those people who got convicted for stealing a $20 t-shirt or having a small bag of pot when they were 18 definitely should have there mugshot online for the rest of time...
Not to mention when a person is arrested, their name is printed in the local newspaper. If said charges are dropped, the newspaper does not print a correction. I had this happen to me and my reputation was destroyed.
Very interesting! As a European, this makes me really appreciate the EU ruling that every citizen has a right to request Google to remove links about them.
That only is effective if you can take the time to find every URL with your mugshot, hope none of them have redirections set up and then pray another site doesn't post the image afterwards.
@@sirtickleshitz yeah yeah Edit-also I think you'll find Germany and France plays quite a large role in the EU-we certainly didn't carry the whole EU on our backs. But I'm not going to argue, it's pointless
Noah Smith Freedom doesn't mean you're entitled of doing whatever you want. I am not free to come to your house with a crowbar and break your kneecaps.
Firstly, 100 more "thumbs up." Hey, Warden Eternal. interestingly, in Canada, our privacy laws forbid releasing this kind of information by police unless they can prove a strong public safety case. Yes, freedom IS great. Tell me which other free countries display this private info? Many Americans seem to think that the weird crap that goes on there is common throughout the world: you would be surprised.
I'm facing that situation now thanks to an angry ex that will never see consequences, but I will never be able to have it all removed, even after all charges were dropped with no evidence found. Not the funniest like you said but I've always preferred informative videos.
Son: Dad what happened to the roses? Dad: Son... I can't plant the roses... Son: ... dad why do you even plant the roses right beside the our front door? Dad: well this is why I hate you. What do you think what happens next?
love this journalistic pieces from cracked. I'm willing to out up with the text over images videos that they started doing. I guess that allows them to out more effort into bigger videos like this one while keeping the content flowing
my mugshot appeared every 5 minutes in a news article on a huge screen on the face of the biggest mall in town. the charges were dropped ofcourse but the news website continued to show the article on the building for a whole month, even though everything in the article was either false or grossly exagerated. this led to lots of people thinking i was a criminal and in some cases some people even called me out when i went outside in public spaces. a lawyer told me that suing the website would have ultimately cost me more than i would have possibly gained, so in the end i just had to wait for the whole thing to blow over and hope people dont google my name. i joke about it now, but it still sucks ass when i think about it
I have this exact problem due to dumb mistakes on other people's parts, the only time I was at fault was because I didn't have enough money for an overpriced ticket I'd ALREADY Paid twice before. Nobody would know that just looking at my mugshot though.
Here's the divide at cracked. O'brian does one of these videos and I'm interested and don't mind that it isn't comedy because it's well done. About anyone else there does anything like this and it sounds like a crackpot conspiracy theory.
I really liked this video. Had no idea about any of this. I love your comedy but you're great at this stuff too. It IS important, and a good chunk of Americans are good people who happen to have mugshots. Good coverage of this topic, and executed very nicely and comprehendable. P.S.unrelated but it's like 7am cause i just watched like all of your guys' podcasts at an ungodly hour Anyway good video!
Great video Dan, as always. I would just say that the credit report thing is harder to correct than you might think. Jon Oliver did a piece on this and I have personally known people who got the run around from credit agencies when they were clearly not the same person the credit reports thought they were.
I am a non native speaker watching this from a non english speaking country and my greatest pride in life is being able to understand Dan when he speaks :D
I know these types of videos and scripted ones like After Hours have a much higher work investment required, but they are seriously the best content of the channel and are why I'm still subscribed and put up with the clickbait and constant text only videos (which are sometimes ok, but generally not that great).
More videos like this please. Don't stop After Hours though. I want more of this, and more of that. I want you to make content until my face peels off. I want DOB sitting at a desk screaming at the top of his lungs who his favorite Star Trek characters are, followed by him calmly explaining the social ramifications of their hypothetical absence from the Star Trek universe. Then I want that Bowie guy to take his shirt off and jump in a kiddie pool of jello. I almost said "pig intestines" but I changed it to jello because I thought it would be weird. Then I told you about my correction. I am going to bed now.
Fantastic video! Really interesting even if on the other side of the pond over here in England, we don't have these kinds of problems. Just leads to me shaking of my head in shock and disappointment and muttering "Those crazy kids" like a terribly cynical father to your fantastic and broken country.
cracked explains. is amazing. i loved john oliver's show until the election got close and i soured on it the way i did on CC. way to go guys!!! great videos, i already love the crowd here so tackling these understated issues (even if a show is 'light on jokes') with the conversational, witty tone WITHOUT feeling a monolithic network breathing down the hosts' necks is refreshing.
There was a man in my state who was beaten almost to death after just busted (mugshot paper) messed up and put "sexual assault of a minor"....when he was actually arrested for not paying a damn speeding ticket.
And in a digitalized-technologically focused country/world, all of these things are stacked against you in addition to your state of being at war with yourself, and living alone in a society of less forgiving and understanding of one's neighbors and their struggles. Every aspect and so many potential opportunities of one's life... You need a job, you need an opportunity to rent a house or the opposite end of the income scale and someone who is struggling to get the food stamps they need to get nutrition requirements to uphold the job and ensure the health and stability needed to do so. Jail and prison were supposedly created to be punishment and rehabilitation, but they don't, they're established to make profits off of unfortunate individuals that get trapped in their systemized entanglement within the monetization of destruction of people's identities and overall wellbeing. What have we established the criminal system for?....? Is it working?..? For whom? Is that just/justice ⚖️? Should we discuss making some changes to better utilize ALL OF THE RESOURCES that we are dumping into these (financially succeeding!), but overall, failed industries and practices for our neighborhoods and society? Compare ours to other countries, even, especially with ones that are focused on the rehabilitation aspects instead...?..? * Or even be able to discuss things with each other appropriately, such as can someone who has killed someone exist (appropriately) in society? * Or are they forever damaged and deemed as unwell, unsafe, or even unemployable? * Reminder to everyone to please, never to forget about the "case-to-case basis"... Everyone is an individual and dealing with his/her own struggles, some that we can relate with, and some that we may never even be able to imagine. ✌️&❤️ & ⚖️
I don't trust any person who hasn't been to prison. Having been to prison doesn't guarantee you're a decent human being, but being able to witness the evil and injustice of the sociopathic capitalist hegemony and avoid going to prison fighting it definitely means you're not.
So I spit out the wine I coincidentally had in my mouth already with absolutely perfect comedic timing, but the only one who saw it go down was my cat. He was definitely startled, but not at all amused. Literally & figuratively went right over his head. Which would have made it even a tad bit funnier had another human been present. I just... needed to share my sadness over this. Thank you.
I'm amazed that these types of photos even get out into the public. I work at the police outside of the US and we take data privacy extremely seriously. When we write press releases about things that happened, we never publish personal information about the people doing it or send their mugshots along, because that type of data is private and not of interest to the public, exactly because it could have a negative impact on someone's life for no reason at all. This is what always amused me about news articles from the US where they print names and mugshots of criminals. If I were to even mention the name of somebody who might have done something wrong, or hell, just someone being brought into the police station for questioning, I'd be fired immediately.
I love defacing local websites that try to capitalize on mugshots. It's despicable to extort money from people to remove an image from a website. Also it seems that mainly smaller, local police like to broadcast all of their mug shots. I've thankfully never been able to locate my mugshot online through a publicly available search engine.
Just gonna let you know that if there's a moderate to large mistake on your credit report it can be nearly impossible at times to change those mistakes. Anyways, good episode.
Dan O'Brien, , if you read this comment, i just wanna say that if i ever met you in person i would totally risk my self esteem and ask you out. That is all. As you were.
Then we need to make a federal law requiring all mughsot sites to include context for the arrest. If someone sees that a person wasn't convicted, or even never went to trial, it should be obvious that the person isn't necessarily and more dangerous to hire than someone with no mugshot online.
Mike Mac then the company won't make profit from having the person pay lots of money trying to remove it. At least not the hundreds they receive from their unethical business practice they'd just get add money.
Or you could spread stuff like this video so that potential employers can see it. If they know these sites are bullshit and run by amoral assholes they almost certainly use them. And no need to get the government involved where they don't belong.
Two guys had a fight in a bar. My friend didn’t know either of them and wasn’t involved at all. But 9 people were arrested. All charges were dropped against all 9 people. You can look up my friends name and not only see his but also all 9 of the guys arrested. My friend paid one of those websites and it never took the picture down so he still pops up on google.
A point of correction, out of the damages he would receive, his attorney would be able to deduct reasonable attorney's fee which would be about 30% of the final judgment. That is not taking into account a lesser amount from settling which is the fate of about 80%- 90% of all cases. So most of the damages would go to him and not his attorney. And all would go to him if he is able to successfully claim attorney's fees as part of his damages or even more if he can get punitive damages. Of course, I don't know Oregon law so these are just estimations and generalizations.
Fun fact: if you are never processed into holding, the mugshot is taken but never uploaded to any database. It's true. Get somebody to bail you out extremely quickly and you can avoid the whole mugshot problem.
I've been arrested 8 times in 2 different states. Never convicted but got a mugshot taken each time. Not a single website has my mugshot. Seems like it depends on the state you get arrested in whether it appears on one of those sites or if it was newsworthy.
the website for the local newstation has a section literally dedicated to recent arrests with mugshots. it’s disgusting. but i guess the tiny disclaimer about people being innocent until proven guilty at the bottom of the page makes everything okay /s
An fascinating- and obviously passionate- video that also sparked interesting conversations in the comments, bravo. I hope something makes you smile today :-)
People trust Cracked (sometimes....) so thanks for speaking up for the victims of these sites. I think people are starting to get the sense that they can't trust everything they google anymore. You're a good egg, Daniel.
Great video. What is up with that map in the back ground? The Amazon river system looks odd, there is a water system in the American North West, the Nile seems to flow east, and there is a new bay east of Korea and Eastern Russia is missing.
Thank you, Dan & the rest of Cracked. It makes me kinda angry that "humour" sites are the only ones brave enough to tackle things like this.
I’m sure I could write an entire paper, just chronicling how Cracked Magazine, a publication that started out, according to my mother, as the even more low-brow kid brother of Mad Magazine, became one of the most hard-hitting vanguards of American journalism, in a time when even reputable news publications are being swayed by corporate fudging, hearsay, and duplicitous bad-faith representatives... and all this change happened seemingly overnight.
It’s like if the Garbage Pail Kid cards became the only media source you could trust. I’m sure there’s a fascinating story behind how this shift occurred, but I’m lazy and hate research.
If I had to guess though... it probably started with hiring more female editors.
I wouldnt mind more serious content like this
seems like it hit kind of home, which one of the cracked crew has a mugshot floating around out there? Is it Soren?... i bet it's soren
Can Doodle Probably him or Swaim
Can Doodle they did a personal experience article on this. They turned that article into a video. I still loved both the video and the article
The truth is it could be anyone arrested in the last decade or so and it's a miscarriage of justice. My husband got pulled over and arrested because he was designated driver and before going out drinking a
friend's of a friend had robbed a house so the cops arrests everyone in the vehicle, all 8 guys. My husband is army and has top secret clearance for his job. Fortunately, he was able to explain it to his commander and because he was the being a responsible NCO by being the DD he was able to pass it off as privates (e-1 to e-3 rank) are stupid but it could have devastated his military career. Despicable!
I love how this had 506 like and zero dislikes lol everyone agrees
When i was 16 i was arrested for assault. Until the cops heard what happened. I was NEVER charged with any crime but they did take my mugshot. What public service is others having access to this photo doing? None.
Mama MOB Especially since you were a minor, that's even worse.
Not sure if it's on any of the sites since it happened in the 90's but who knows. I know i'm not ganna go look.
Usually when it's a minor all the stuff is sealed so unless a judge orders someone to see it they can't. It's to protect minors. Like how unless the victim or their family say so, child victims never have their identities shown.
Heather Butt ok then change the age to 18 and reapply the question. What public service is others having access to this photo doing? None.
Even if you were charged, it’s stupid to publically humiliate anyone for the rest of their life
Great video. Reminds me of something from Last Week Tonight. I would love to see more of these issue pieces. Perhaps not the funniest video from cracked, but worth watching.
This^ comment was a lie, as usual.
+ Critical Hit How is it a lie?
quantumperception That's what I was thinking as well.
This is why broadcast tv is dying, becuase they won't do stuff like this.
dangerouslytalented they do in the uk
I was holding tea and actually took a sip, waited, and comically spat it out when he read the price. That was the highlight of my day.
Izzy Williams xD
Your day must have sucked
I know it'll never happen, but if we didn't stigmatize people for simply being arrested, these parasites wouldn't have a business model.
For the record, yes, I have multiple arrests for traffic related offenses, and one for possession, but my name is so common that no one could ever google me anyway.
The Bastard, UA-cam Villain what does stigmatise mean?
I'm on to you John Smith
Yes, it is a big part of the problem in America, I have noticed. Guilty until proven innocent.
Arrested for something? You must be guilty. Accused of something, especially more than once? Must be guilty.
In some cases, even the courts have gone on that line. Like with the recent COX case, where internet service provider COX lost Safe Harbor because the court felt that the companies bombarding them with DMCA takedown notices (which is ACCUSATIONS of copyright infringements) against their customers is the same as their customers having definitely broken the law. They read "repeat infringement" in the DMCA to mean "repeat accusation" instead of "repeated convictions".
Which is funny to me as an outsider, since US is just about the only place where you hear people shout "we got JUSTICE" or "we bring JUSTICE". True justice is to dig a little deeper than the surface, look at the facts and see what really happen, build your opinion on the final answer and not just take things at face value for a swift conclusion. A bullet may be fast, but it's better to catch a fish with a rod than a rifle.
The Bastard, UA-cam Villain I have a very uncommon name and things in my distant past that are making it nearly impossible to find work. You’ve actually got me considering a legal name change to something really common.
The right to be forgotten is real and one I wish Americans would fight for. Americans claim to care about "freedom" but have no respect for privacy or being told to mind their own business ever.
That was one hell of a sidebar
I think this is my new favorite quote: "I think the ease of understanding with which we employ 'It makes sense from a business stand-point' these days, is deeply troubling. Because it implies on our part, a tasked complicity in a system where practices that we all acknowledge to be inherently unfair and morally bankrupt, are okay because “business” as a concept, exists in a separate plain divorced from any sense of decency where making the most money at the fastest rate trumps literally anything else." - Daniel O’Brien
*plane
great quote, thank you
This is basically a John Oliver bit with fewer gags, higher information density, and a lower budget.
Which, btw, is mostly a compliment. Keep up the good work, Dan.
I had a mug shot up for a while and yes the charges were dropped but i still have to deal with it. People in US believe in guilt even if proven innocent
I've really fallen in love with cracked, did not expect to find this to be such valuable channel for great information. And great satire. Don't ever so guys, much love!
I enjoy the "Cracked Explains" series quite a bit. Go long all you'd like, they're very well put together segments. Thanks.
They should only publish when charges end in conviction.
Not even then... because you'll need to reinsert this people in society at some point, and you don't want to make it hard.
If this young dude drives drunk and gets convicted for a week, then he cannot get a job, that's completely ridiculous.
I think the argument for taking mugshots and for making them publicly accessible is, as Dan said in the video, an insurance against you being arrested and vanished by corrupt police.
Publicly accessible doesn't have to mean readily available from a Google search, though. Obviously.
Maybe just make it so only a government organization is allowed to publish/spread the mugshot on request, and make it illegal to make money off a mugshot. You'd then need to request the specific mugshot you want and you are not allowed to make it public yourself or sell it.
Freedom of Information Act. Benefits far outweigh the costs.
Yeah all those people who got convicted for stealing a $20 t-shirt or having a small bag of pot when they were 18 definitely should have there mugshot online for the rest of time...
Not to mention when a person is arrested, their name is printed in the local newspaper. If said charges are dropped, the newspaper does not print a correction. I had this happen to me and my reputation was destroyed.
I love videos like this. Explaining stuff that's probably not well known but hugely important.
This was incredible. Cheers Dan and Soren (for writing the article)
This is the best stuff Cracked puts out. Excellent.
Getting to this way late but still very informative.. thanks again Dan for shedding light on something criminal which needs to be stopped.
This is a good episode. Lot's of good points made with proper reasoning and it's a just cause. Keep up the good work.
Never heard of this issue. Good on you cracked for spreading awareness.
Very interesting! As a European, this makes me really appreciate the EU ruling that every citizen has a right to request Google to remove links about them.
themarquess yeah but because of some foolish people in the uk we are about to leave the EU :(
That only is effective if you can take the time to find every URL with your mugshot, hope none of them have redirections set up and then pray another site doesn't post the image afterwards.
@@teethgrinder83 EU is a joke, now the UK doesn't have to carry the whole Union on it's back while being spat on.
@@sirtickleshitz yeah yeah
Edit-also I think you'll find Germany and France plays quite a large role in the EU-we certainly didn't carry the whole EU on our backs. But I'm not going to argue, it's pointless
@@teethgrinder83 yeah yeah, sounds more like you don't know how to explain it. Considering UK had 2nd largest GDP behind the back broken Germany.
America, you're... creepy.
Seriously, how is that legal ?
AcetylsaliciIique DEMOCRACY!!!!!
AcetylsaliciIique I don't think this is an American only thing.
AcetylsaliciIique Freedom?
Noah Smith Freedom doesn't mean you're entitled of doing whatever you want. I am not free to come to your house with a crowbar and break your kneecaps.
Firstly, 100 more "thumbs up." Hey, Warden Eternal. interestingly, in Canada, our privacy laws forbid releasing this kind of information by police unless they can prove a strong public safety case. Yes, freedom IS great. Tell me which other free countries display this private info? Many Americans seem to think that the weird crap that goes on there is common throughout the world: you would be surprised.
This has a 'last week tonight' feel to it
I'm facing that situation now thanks to an angry ex that will never see consequences, but I will never be able to have it all removed, even after all charges were dropped with no evidence found. Not the funniest like you said but I've always preferred informative videos.
Roses are dead
Violets are dead
I'm a bad gardener
Ko Mag
Bro this isn't YIAY
Son: Dad what happened to the roses?
Dad: Son... I can't plant the roses...
Son: ... dad why do you even plant the roses right beside the our front door?
Dad: well this is why I hate you.
What do you think what happens next?
+The Fisken
roses are dead
violets are dead
my son is also dead
+Tim TheFoodDude *Forehead joke joke*
+The Fisken
"What do you think what happens next?"
I don't know, because it didn't make any sense :/ -_-
love this journalistic pieces from cracked. I'm willing to out up with the text over images videos that they started doing. I guess that allows them to out more effort into bigger videos like this one while keeping the content flowing
my mugshot appeared every 5 minutes in a news article on a huge screen on the face of the biggest mall in town. the charges were dropped ofcourse but the news website continued to show the article on the building for a whole month, even though everything in the article was either false or grossly exagerated. this led to lots of people thinking i was a criminal and in some cases some people even called me out when i went outside in public spaces.
a lawyer told me that suing the website would have ultimately cost me more than i would have possibly gained, so in the end i just had to wait for the whole thing to blow over and hope people dont google my name.
i joke about it now, but it still sucks ass when i think about it
This is a really good video. I'm always happy to see this guy's face, his videos are clearly the best on the channel. Keep it up!
PS thanks, Cracked, this was pretty incredible
I have this exact problem due to dumb mistakes on other people's parts, the only time I was at fault was because I didn't have enough money for an overpriced ticket I'd ALREADY Paid twice before. Nobody would know that just looking at my mugshot though.
Frankly surprised this is allowed to be legal.
one of the best informational videos ive seen on youtube. Probably best in all of cracked
I love how Daniel's description of the immorality of business essentially sums up the inevitable reality of capitalism itself.
Can never get enough Daniel!
Here's the divide at cracked. O'brian does one of these videos and I'm interested and don't mind that it isn't comedy because it's well done. About anyone else there does anything like this and it sounds like a crackpot conspiracy theory.
I really liked this video. Had no idea about any of this. I love your comedy but you're great at this stuff too. It IS important, and a good chunk of Americans are good people who happen to have mugshots. Good coverage of this topic, and executed very nicely and comprehendable.
P.S.unrelated but it's like 7am cause i just watched like all of your guys' podcasts at an ungodly hour
Anyway good video!
Seriously Daniel, this was really good. You don't have to be funny - just keep producing more quality content like this.
Great video Dan, as always. I would just say that the credit report thing is harder to correct than you might think. Jon Oliver did a piece on this and I have personally known people who got the run around from credit agencies when they were clearly not the same person the credit reports thought they were.
I've read the article, it is a good and informative piece and I highly recommend it.
I am a non native speaker watching this from a non english speaking country and my greatest pride in life is being able to understand Dan when he speaks :D
I like this sort of investigative video. It should be a regular thing
Definitely do more of this type please. Great video.
Cracked is releasing some pretty good shit lately.
I know these types of videos and scripted ones like After Hours have a much higher work investment required, but they are seriously the best content of the channel and are why I'm still subscribed and put up with the clickbait and constant text only videos (which are sometimes ok, but generally not that great).
More videos like this please. Don't stop After Hours though. I want more of this, and more of that. I want you to make content until my face peels off. I want DOB sitting at a desk screaming at the top of his lungs who his favorite Star Trek characters are, followed by him calmly explaining the social ramifications of their hypothetical absence from the Star Trek universe. Then I want that Bowie guy to take his shirt off and jump in a kiddie pool of jello. I almost said "pig intestines" but I changed it to jello because I thought it would be weird. Then I told you about my correction. I am going to bed now.
Fantastic video! Really interesting even if on the other side of the pond over here in England, we don't have these kinds of problems. Just leads to me shaking of my head in shock and disappointment and muttering "Those crazy kids" like a terribly cynical father to your fantastic and broken country.
That was extremely well thought out, Bravo!!!
Damn, this was like a really good bootleg john oliver video
Good video. I love how fast dan speaks. So many youtube videos talk so slow and like the listener wont understand the words unless spoken very slowly.
Why can't I stop watching you guys...
1:48
"the internet was a mistake"
-Daniel O'Brien (Cracked editor in chief)
cracked explains. is amazing.
i loved john oliver's show until the election got close and i soured on it the way i did on CC.
way to go guys!!! great videos, i already love the crowd here so tackling these understated issues (even if a show is 'light on jokes') with the conversational, witty tone WITHOUT feeling a monolithic network breathing down the hosts' necks is refreshing.
Thanks for the explanation. Didn't know this was even a thing, let alone a problem. Keep up the good work
dude. honestly. great segment
Had no idea mugshots sites were a thing. And I'm basically on the internet 24/7.
That map still confuses the hell out of me.
I remember reading the article with Will. I'm glad you guys made a video about this, cuz it's outrageously shady.
@cracked Daniel you are very good at this format would love to see more. you are the best!
Why is Cracked better at investigative journalism than the Mainstream Media?!
Keep fighting the good fight Daniel
"The internet was a mistake" Dan OBrian
There was a man in my state who was beaten almost to death after just busted (mugshot paper) messed up and put "sexual assault of a minor"....when he was actually arrested for not paying a damn speeding ticket.
Wow. This is some dystopian level shit. Another day another chance to loose even more trust in my America
Thank you for covering this topic.
I've been arrested during the throws of a mental disorder as well and let me tell you, I'm a good person but my mugshot might say otherwise 😞
And in a digitalized-technologically focused country/world, all of these things are stacked against you in addition to your state of being at war with yourself, and living alone in a society of less forgiving and understanding of one's neighbors and their struggles.
Every aspect and so many potential opportunities of one's life... You need a job, you need an opportunity to rent a house or the opposite end of the income scale and someone who is struggling to get the food stamps they need to get nutrition requirements to uphold the job and ensure the health and stability needed to do so.
Jail and prison were supposedly created to be punishment and rehabilitation, but they don't, they're established to make profits off of unfortunate individuals that get trapped in their systemized entanglement within the monetization of destruction of people's identities and overall wellbeing.
What have we established the criminal system for?....? Is it working?..?
For whom?
Is that just/justice ⚖️?
Should we discuss making some changes to better utilize ALL OF THE RESOURCES that we are dumping into these (financially succeeding!), but overall, failed industries and practices for our neighborhoods and society?
Compare ours to other countries, even, especially with ones that are focused on the rehabilitation aspects instead...?..?
* Or even be able to discuss things with each other appropriately, such as can someone who has killed someone exist (appropriately) in society?
* Or are they forever damaged and deemed as unwell, unsafe, or even unemployable?
* Reminder to everyone to please, never to forget about the "case-to-case basis"...
Everyone is an individual and dealing with his/her own struggles, some that we can relate with, and some that we may never even be able to imagine. ✌️&❤️ & ⚖️
I don't trust any person who hasn't been to prison. Having been to prison doesn't guarantee you're a decent human being, but being able to witness the evil and injustice of the sociopathic capitalist hegemony and avoid going to prison fighting it definitely means you're not.
next video from cracked: why some channels make up dumb videos due to lack of content. (just kidding!)
I don't care how long it was. That was fantastic. It would be great if you all did more stuff like this!
So I spit out the wine I coincidentally had in my mouth already with absolutely perfect comedic timing, but the only one who saw it go down was my cat. He was definitely startled, but not at all amused. Literally & figuratively went right over his head. Which would have made it even a tad bit funnier had another human been present. I just... needed to share my sadness over this. Thank you.
I'm amazed that these types of photos even get out into the public. I work at the police outside of the US and we take data privacy extremely seriously. When we write press releases about things that happened, we never publish personal information about the people doing it or send their mugshots along, because that type of data is private and not of interest to the public, exactly because it could have a negative impact on someone's life for no reason at all. This is what always amused me about news articles from the US where they print names and mugshots of criminals. If I were to even mention the name of somebody who might have done something wrong, or hell, just someone being brought into the police station for questioning, I'd be fired immediately.
9:43 LMAO! I did not take a drink, but I did have a literal spit-take at that number!
Beautifully Awesomely Put! I love you guys
I love defacing local websites that try to capitalize on mugshots. It's despicable to extort money from people to remove an image from a website. Also it seems that mainly smaller, local police like to broadcast all of their mug shots. I've thankfully never been able to locate my mugshot online through a publicly available search engine.
Just gonna let you know that if there's a moderate to large mistake on your credit report it can be nearly impossible at times to change those mistakes. Anyways, good episode.
It makes my stomach fold every time I hear of this kind of thing happening. Thank God I don't have any mugshots.
You should make a separate video about the sidebar at 7:50. That was a good sidebar.
Also, talk at that same speed.
Dan O'Brien, , if you read this comment, i just wanna say that if i ever met you in person i would totally risk my self esteem and ask you out. That is all. As you were.
Is the Nile river turned horizontally in the picture behind him or am I crazy
Look closer. The whole world is cracked.
This was rad. The kind of stuff I want to see from Cracked, and not the honest ad stuff.
Then we need to make a federal law requiring all mughsot sites to include context for the arrest. If someone sees that a person wasn't convicted, or even never went to trial, it should be obvious that the person isn't necessarily and more dangerous to hire than someone with no mugshot online.
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Mike Mac should be.....but would it?
Mike Mac then the company won't make profit from having the person pay lots of money trying to remove it. At least not the hundreds they receive from their unethical business practice they'd just get add money.
Or you could spread stuff like this video so that potential employers can see it. If they know these sites are bullshit and run by amoral assholes they almost certainly use them. And no need to get the government involved where they don't belong.
Good luck trying to enforce that. Especially with sites who have a domain outside of America.
Two guys had a fight in a bar. My friend didn’t know either of them and wasn’t involved at all. But 9 people were arrested. All charges were dropped against all 9 people. You can look up my friends name and not only see his but also all 9 of the guys arrested. My friend paid one of those websites and it never took the picture down so he still pops up on google.
A point of correction, out of the damages he would receive, his attorney would be able to deduct reasonable attorney's fee which would be about 30% of the final judgment. That is not taking into account a lesser amount from settling which is the fate of about 80%- 90% of all cases. So most of the damages would go to him and not his attorney. And all would go to him if he is able to successfully claim attorney's fees as part of his damages or even more if he can get punitive damages. Of course, I don't know Oregon law so these are just estimations and generalizations.
Fun fact: if you are never processed into holding, the mugshot is taken but never uploaded to any database. It's true. Get somebody to bail you out extremely quickly and you can avoid the whole mugshot problem.
So if I'm wealthy this isn't a problem for me?
I've been arrested 8 times in 2 different states. Never convicted but got a mugshot taken each time. Not a single website has my mugshot. Seems like it depends on the state you get arrested in whether it appears on one of those sites or if it was newsworthy.
i didn't even know this was a problem. thanks, now i feel more educated. 👍
I cannot find my own Mugshots... but then I am in Canada.
I will never stop saying this: Cracked are getting to be better journalists than most mainstream media.
This is good journalism!
Maybe long for a cracked video. But packed with useful and shocking information and still commensurate with the normal joke ratio. Thanks!
the website for the local newstation has a section literally dedicated to recent arrests with mugshots. it’s disgusting. but i guess the tiny disclaimer about people being innocent until proven guilty at the bottom of the page makes everything okay /s
That sidebar was the most important thing anyone at Cracked has ever said
This is like an actually funny segment of Last Week Tonight.
THIS is the Cracked that I miss.
it's like a mini LastWeekTonight with John Oliver.
you should work for LastWeekTon- oh wait
Daniel could do a video on paint drying and he'd still somehow make it interesting to watch!
Excellent leg work on this one.
An fascinating- and obviously passionate- video that also sparked interesting conversations in the comments, bravo. I hope something makes you smile today :-)
This is a frighteningly informative video.
People trust Cracked (sometimes....) so thanks for speaking up for the victims of these sites. I think people are starting to get the sense that they can't trust everything they google anymore. You're a good egg, Daniel.
Great video.
What is up with that map in the back ground? The Amazon river system looks odd, there is a water system in the American North West, the Nile seems to flow east, and there is a new bay east of Korea and Eastern Russia is missing.
Great episode, Cracked!