{"id":2994,"date":"2015-08-21T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:49:19","slug":"what-the-uber-uber-hired-25-drivers-with-criminal-records-including-a-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2015\/08\/21\/what-the-uber-uber-hired-25-drivers-with-criminal-records-including-a-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Uber?! Uber Hired 25 Drivers with Criminal Records Including a Murderer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2933\" style=\"border: 0px none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1055\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33.jpg 1055w, https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33-1024x472.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1055px) 100vw, 1055px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Another weekly What The Uber story about how Uber isn&#8217;t as thorough as they should be when conducting background checks of their potential drivers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The San Francisco district attorney&#8217;s office states that Uber allowed 25 drivers with criminal records to drive for the ride sharing service. One of these drivers was a convicted murderer who previously spent 26 years in prison before being released in 2008. The driver supposedly joined Uber in 2014 using a fake identity and gave over 1,000 rides with Uber before he was discovered.\u00a0How do you miss that?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This wasn&#8217;t the only mistake Uber made&#8211; over 20 more of their drivers were previously convicted of crimes and many spent a significant time in prison. Another one of the drivers was convicted for &#8220;committing lewd or lascivious acts against a child under 14&#8221; which was conveniently not found when Uber conducted a background check. This ex-driver gave almost 6,000 rides with Uber, and according to the records, some of these rides included unaccompanied children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Some of the other ex-criminals were convicted of felonies such as kidnapping, selling drugs, and drunk driving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">San Francisco is pushing Uber to use fingerprinting technology in their background checks but Uber is strongly resisting, because they believe that no system is 100% foolproof. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s in their best interest to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><em>If you have a What The Uber moment or want to share a What The Uber story please email<\/em><a href=\"mailto:wtu@taxifarefinder.com\"><em>wtu@taxifarefinder.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0or use the hashtag #WhatTheUber to get your story featured and shared on our social media!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><em><\/em>Felicia\u00a0is an intern at Unleashed, LLC. She is from upstate NY, and is currently pursuing a Marketing degree at Bentley University. One day she hopes to travel the world and visit every continent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekly What The Uber story about how Uber isn&#8217;t as thorough as they should be when conducting background checks of their potential drivers! The San Francisco district attorney&#8217;s office states that Uber allowed 25 drivers with criminal records to drive for the ride sharing service. One of these drivers was a convicted murderer who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115],"tags":[29,137,297,12,105,230,15,36,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}