The wizarding community has had many dark wizards from the beginning of the wizarding community to later days. The latest dark wizard was he-who-must-not-be-named. He and his followers have killed hundreds of witches and wizards, they have also tortured hundreds of people, they have gone as far as to killing muggles who have nothing to do with are community of wizards and witches. I'm sure the ministry does not want an other dark wizard/witch to rise to power and split apart families.
Secondly in this past years the wizarding community as