Your comment maintains your track record of engaging in quintessential ignorance, Yakovputz. 

There have been many heroes in America who have spent time in jail. Thomas Paine. General Grant. Martin Luther King, Jr. Father Dan Berrigan, who died on Saturday. I have a dear friend whose sentence was commuted by Bill Clinton in the last week of his presidency. He was doing 40 years for growing pot and had served 10. On release, he worked full time and volunteered more, and got a bachelor's degree, then a masters from real universities.  He took single parent responsibility for his young daughter. He's been out for 14 years and runs a clinic which has helped countless people to overcome addictions. 

What do you think of Chuck Colson, who was convicted during Watergate, and turned his life around?  A friend of mine, Egil Krogh, did the same. You were a cop for decades. I can't imagine that you don't know of ANYONE who was convicted of a crime who went on to become an upstanding citizen.