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What do you think of this?

iwannabeacowboy

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/27/atf-stash-houses-sting-usa-today-investigation/2457109/

I can't cut and paste from this phone.
 

Mike

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Traveler said:
Maybe a bit of entrapment and resume enhancing on the tax payers dime.

Not much difference than baiting a trap for a starving church mouse.

Except a mouse's life has no value and no one cares if it dies.
 

Steve

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two ways to look at this..

while we have plenty of unsolved crimes.. they want to create other crimes..

my view on that is while they are getting some scum off the street they are taking the easy way or lazy way at it .. instead of building cases against existing crimes and criminals..

if they have a person or group they have good evidence against but not enough to tie it together for a court of law.. then these stings can be invaluable.. but in some cases they are enticing otherwise law abiding citizens to commit crimes.. while rare, one time is to many..



as I was taught.. a lock only keeps an honest man ,.. honest..

some of US respect the law.. and would throw a lock on a neighbors shed if we saw it open..

others might look to see if there was anything in there.. and think better of it and just walk away,..
.. but with a person egging them on.. they may also grab a few things and hope to get away with it..

the LAST thing we need is for our police to be encouraging crime..
 

Traveler

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Mike said:
Traveler said:
Maybe a bit of entrapment and resume enhancing on the tax payers dime.

Not much difference than baiting a trap for a starving church mouse.

Except a mouse's life has no value and no one cares if it dies.
If someone is enticed to throw their life away by police, they must look at them as a church mouse, it would seem.
 
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