Why don’t you take a seat and watch this teaser for Primetime (A24)

filmed in NOLA

Wicked cool.

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Well they managed to come off slimy and underhanded when the opposition was child sex predators

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They did? It's been ages since I've seen an episode but I don't remember Dateline coming off as looking bad.

I'd have had a little different catch phrase than Chris Hansen though.

*Pervert walks in and sets down flower and candy*

*Iwy walks in*...

Not really he had chatted with them and sent a dick pic but he never went to the sting house to meet the "13 yr old". Dateline and the cops decided to go to his house and arrest him and he shot himself when they were trying to swat team into his house. The cops were worse than Dateline and were basically just small town cops trying to get on tv. Dateline had crossed over from documenting some people catching pedos to trying to make splashier arrests to keep the show interesting.

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he had chatted with them and sent a dick pic

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Dateline and the cops decided to go to his house and arrest him and he shot himself when they were trying to swat team into his house

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To what he thought was an underage child. The cops swat teamed his house and he killed himself.

Sounds like a good day's work.

The funniest part is in season 1 they didn’t think to involve the cops so when he said “you’re free to go”, he actually meant it and it led to atleast one guy getting caught multiple times in the same day

Then after that they would still say you’re good to go and then the gilly suit would pop up


I believe most convictions got overturned or turned into lightweight plea deals

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I mapped out the Predators documentary that's on Paramount in this thread. It's a good overview of Hansen's efforts but it ends with a bizarre look into the documentarian.

Besides the suicide, Hansen's come under fire for other stuff, including "catching" a high school senior trying to contact a freshman/sophomore.

Sadly, after all of the good that Hansen did on his NBC show, he begat YouTube posers who put zero effort into how to assist the authorities and are just doing a catch-and-release version of TCAP.

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i admit to having watched that show quite a lot on tv and also on youtube. but i dont know man, some of it seemed pretty rough. most of them were clearly legitimate predators that needed to get got, without a doubt. but there were some guys that you really got the feeling were sort of dragged into the situation. i'm sure many will argue "well they were still talking to underage girls and seeking sex" which i get. but hooking in some poor loser in his basement who is entirely sex deprived, hopelessly hooked on porn, and susceptible to ANY kind of positive female attention feels sad and even a little mean spirited. especially as the show progressed and they needed more and more content, i have no doubt that a lot of these "decoys" were pretty aggressive in going after guys.

again, at the end of the day, they are still grown men going after underage girls, and they deserve what they get. but it feels like finding a heroin addict who is desperately clinging to sobriety, putting him in a room with a bunch of heroin, and then shaming and arresting him for relapsing.