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Seriously?

posted 14 years ago by rrpostal
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Are police retarded? I've only seen a few episodes of this. But I just watched one where they staged their "fake warrant" arrest with the bait car and left it parked directly in front of some poor lady's driveway. She comes out (to go get her kids from school). She looks all around the car and then sees the keys, gets in and moves it about 10 feet. She gets out and leaves it there as she found it. Then she gets in her own car and pulls our of the driveway that is now cleared and drives off.

The genius cops watched the whole thing and were like "what was that about?" and "what's she up to?". Honestly. What did it freakin' look like she was doing? What could it be about that job and the people that do it who could find suspicion in something so... innocent? To make it downright insulting, they pull her over a block away, delay her, ask her what the deal is with the red truck (they put the goddamned thing there!) and RUN HER LICENSE. What absolute *beep* She was going to get her kids. It turns out she even tried to call dispatch about the stupid car.

I just don't get where they think it is there job to harass and innocent taxpayer by blocking her driveway, ignoring her call for help and then processing her and delaying her business for no reason at all. Honestly the whole thing just pisses me beyond belief.

A totally different subject, but I sort of liked things better when I was young and innocent and thought things like entrapment really existed. I know there's obviously some legal grey area this and prostitute stings must function in. I'm just saying something doesn't seem right about it. What good is catching scumbags if it requires creating an equally big scumbag (who also has power)?

[–] BestlnTheWorld 14 years ago

This actually pissed me off as well. They blocked her driveway and then pulled her over for moving the truck. She did absolutely nothing wrong so they shouldn't have been able to run her license and stuff. Cops are so ridiculous.

[–] juviejay 8 years ago

I didn't see this episode, but if what you're saying is true, I wholeheartedly agree. I hate the premise of this show.

It reminds me of an episode of "The Practice" in which a man goes into a bar, is approached by a cop posing as a prostitute, flirted with for a couple hours, and then busted for attempting to hire her.

He argued that he was minding his own business, and wouldn't have been tempted to break the law had they not made it so easy for him.

In this show they go into poor neighborhoods, leave cars unattended, with keys in plain sight, and then bust people to try to take it. I just watched an episode where the cop said something like they had spent 3 hours waiting, but this was a good spot and it eventually paid off. He compared it to fishing.

Back to The Practice, in his closing, his lawyer argued, "Is this really what we want the police to be doing? Luring people into committing crimes and then busting them when they do."

I feel the same what about this show.

I was watching "Cops" the other day and it seems like they are just out busting poor people.

I know it's hard to prevent crime, but I don't believe it should be the police's job to try to get people to commit a crime and then bust them. I wounder what the founding fathers would have thought of that idea.