{"id":720,"date":"2017-03-13T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/03\/13\/r-street-institute-5-reasons-to-stop-imposing-specific-background-checks-on-ride-share\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:57:00","slug":"r-street-institute-5-reasons-to-stop-imposing-specific-background-checks-on-ride-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/r-street-institute-5-reasons-to-stop-imposing-specific-background-checks-on-ride-share\/","title":{"rendered":"R Street Institute.   5 Reasons to Stop Imposing Specific Background Checks on Ride Share."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Its a misconception\u00a0that fingerprinting makes\u00a0the taxi industry safer\n<ul>\n<li>its like all all sqaures are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Academic research doesn&#8217;t\u00a0show an increase in crime since ride share become a thing<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s data that indicates that crime went down among taxi drivers once ride share began.\n<ul>\n<li>the competition cleaned up the taxi drivers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ride share drivers and passengers are tracked by GPS, that makes for one dumb criminal<\/li>\n<li>The federal background check system is &#8220;notoriuously unreliable&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/technology\/323348-legislators-should-stop-mandating-how-uber-conducts-background\">The Hill | R Street Contributor |\u00a0Legislators should stop mandating how Uber conducts background checks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Its a misconception\u00a0that fingerprinting makes\u00a0the taxi industry safer\n<ul>\n<li>its like all all sqaures are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Academic research doesn&#8217;t\u00a0show an increase in crime since ride share become a thing<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s data that indicates that crime went down among taxi drivers once ride share began.\n<ul>\n<li>the competition cleaned up the taxi drivers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ride share drivers and passengers are tracked by GPS, that makes for one dumb criminal<\/li>\n<li>The federal background check system is\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,30,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}