re: Our local PD set up a decoy sting operation. I'd like your opinions

I have no problems with stings like prostitution where a sexy female cop dresses provocatively and stands around waiting on solicitations to come in.

I DO have a problem with cops, or their agents (like these kids), actively seeking out and requesting a crime be committed. If someone volunteers to commit crime of their own accord, so be it. To engage others and solicit crime from others should be criminal in itself (it is a crime to influence after all).

In fact, if I were a juror on such a case I would find the defendants all not guilty without hesitation.

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You sound like a raging liberal in this thread.

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Not really. A core tenet of small c conservatives is that govt, by its very nature, cannot be trusted. That's the whole point of being a small c conservative. We view govt as basically, a necessary evil that should be kept pretty tightly in the rails lest it give in to it's natural tendencies.

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Are there actual bait cars in the area?

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And a bait car still requires a proactive act by a car thief. Basically, he has to be a thief looking to steal a car.

The people walking in to the liquor store weren't there looking for opportunities to by beer for underage folks. They were just there to be alcohol.

I was talking to Mulat and his think of the children at least it starts a discussion type comments.

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But just walking up and “hey mistering” is probably not going to lead to a successful entrapment defense.

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You're likely correct although I can see in some neighborhoods the adult wondering if this "request" was actually a request. IE...….if I say now, what might happen to me?

Don't like it.


It's a "crime" created by the police. Obviously the simple solution is, don't buy alchohol for kids. But the way I see it is that the people weren't out to buy beer for kids. It's a crime that wouldn't have happened if not for the cops manufacturing the morality test.