Isn't a 4% post-offense "faced legal scrutiny" rate worthy of praise ... even for Prez Trump's clemency grants?

This press report about an Oregon study of pandemic-related commutations notes that, among recipients who were released early, "18% were arrested within one year of their commutation, 8% were convicted of a new crime and 2% were reincarcerated."  The press report rightly indicated that these are relatively low rates based on a comparable cohort of individuals in Oregon.  

These Oregon commutations are not really a proper point of comparison, but I am not sure how best to make the point that it is to be expected that, among any significant cohort of clemency recipients, some number are likely to face some future legal difficulties.  But this new ABC News piece about Prez Trump's clemency recipients seeks to make a huge deal about a couple of handfuls of clemency recipients having since "faced legal scrutiny."  The piece is headlined "Trump-era pardon recipients are increasingly back in legal jeopardy," and here are excepts:

An ABC News analysis of the 238 people who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted during the Trump administration found at least ten who have since faced legal scrutiny -- either because they are under investigation, are charged with a crime, or are already convicted.  Legal experts call this recurring theme unprecedented -- but not entirely unexpected, given the former president's unorthodox approach to the pardon process....

Those pardoned by Trump during his term in office included dozens of friends and political allies.  The list included celebrities, lawmakers and former aides who had been convicted of crimes ranging from fraud to murder -- including four private military contractors who were in prison for murdering 17 Iraqi citizens, including two children, in a 2007 attack in Baghdad....

Recidivism rates from previous administrations' clemencies is opaque, as federal agencies don't keep tabs on clemency grantees after their release.  But in one study reviewing former President Barack Obama's 2014 clemency initiative, which led to sentence commutations for nearly 1,700 federal drug offenders, the independent and bipartisan U.S. Sentencing Commission found only three who had been rearrested by the end of 2017.  A Texas woman was rearrested on theft charges less than a year after earning an Obama commutation on her life sentence in 2016, and another Texan pleaded guilty to drug charges less than two years after earning a life sentence commutation under Obama's 2014 clemency initiative.

Based on news accounts and other available evidence, the number of clemency grantees who have gone on to commit additional crimes remains "incredibly low," Kupers said. For Trump-era pardons, however, experts said the numbers seem disproportionately high.

I am depressingly confident that more than three persons who received clemency from Prez Obama have "faced legal scrutiny" in recent years.  But I am even more confident that I do not want the media or others spending time developing questionable clemency "recidivism" statistics or otherwise engaging in partisan spit-fights about the rare clemency recipients who do not make good use of a second chance.  Rather, I wish ABC News and othe press outlets would spend a lot more time telling the encouraging stories of the hundred and throusands of clemency recipients who have made great use of their second chances. Focusing just on grants by Prez Trump, I am thinking about the great work being done in the arena of criminal justice reform by people like Alice Marie Johnson and Weldon Angelos and Amy Povah and David Safavian and Topeka Sam.  I am sure there so many more uplifting stories to tell about clemency recipients, but I am also sure the ghosts of Willie Hortonism still have not faded away.