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“How we found registered sex offenders, I don’t want to know, and people with convictions for violent crimes, I don’t want to know why we know those people,” he continued. “I just don’t want to know, nobody will even tell me and I don’t want to know, but they all made it through Uber’s theoretical background screening.”

During the course of the 27-minute trip, Nenshi also describes Uber employees as “the worst people in the world to deal with” and refers to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick as “a dick” whose attitude “has percolated (through) the entire organization.”

In an interview from Boston on Friday, Nenshi said he did not intend to suggest the city was using criminals, or their names, to test Uber’s background screening process, but was emphasizing the need for more rigorous police background checks on drivers — something he’s said before.

“If you follow it forward, I corrected myself because I was conflating two different things,” Nenshi said.

“The issue is that No. 1, one of the reasons we want to do the CPS background check rather than Uber’s background check is the CPS check catches convicted sex offenders more finely than Uber’s background check and that is well documented,” he said.

“We also know, and I’ve said publicly many times, that we know that someone with an active charge for assault also made it though Uber’s background check,” he added.

When asked whether the city used civil servants to test Uber’s screening process or clarify which people were “sent,” Nenshi said he did not know.