{"id":3109,"date":"2025-12-23T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/uber-allowed-violent-felons-in-22-states-to-drive-report-says\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:53:03","slug":"uber-allowed-violent-felons-in-22-states-to-drive-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/uber-allowed-violent-felons-in-22-states-to-drive-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber allowed violent felons in 22 states to drive, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sm.mashable.com\/t\/mashable_me\/article\/u\/uber-allow\/uber-allowed-violent-felons-in-22-states-to-drive-report-say_mbcb.640.jpg\">Meanwhile, passengers reported sexual assault or misconduct every 8 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Uber admits it is routinely approving drivers with violent felony convictions \u2014 including assault, child abuse, and stalking \u2014 so long as those convictions were more than seven years ago. That&#8217;s in the wake of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/22\/business\/uber-background-checks-sexual-assault.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">damning <\/a><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/22\/business\/uber-background-checks-sexual-assault.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/22\/business\/uber-background-checks-sexual-assault.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> investigation<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, passengers reported sexual assault or misconduct every 8 minutes.<br \/>\nUber admits it is routinely approving drivers with violent felony convictions \u2014 including assault, child abuse, and stalk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}