I have known quite a few people who have had their lives severely messed up by undercover cops. One had a girl at a bar in college come up to him and ask him if he could get her LSD. She was young and flirted with him, and he wasn’t into drugs, but he was into her, so her found some LSD and gave it to her, hoping to get to know her better in ways that she had suggested would happen. She then disappeared and three months later, she knocked on his door at 5am in her police uniform and arrested him.
I worked in restaurants with some ex-cons who gave me some valuable advice. They said used to be, you had to be a criminal to go to prison. Anymore, you just have to be a dumbass. I have found that to be true more than a few times, luckily, never to me.
“I have known quite a few people who have had their lives severely messed up by undercover cops.”..
Excuse me?
There has to be more to the story than just finding a tab of LSD and giving it to an undercover (no matter the circumstances). The DA should not have even prosecuted that or at the very least got that guy into an early offender program.
But on the flip side, many here have no idea how quickly they can get caught up with “the law” and how it can turn your life upside down. It used to be said that ignorance is no excuse but today? There are so many damn “laws” and ordinances its damn near impossible to go through a day without breaking something. They’ll learn, eventually however when the badge they worship turns on them (and no, I don’t think every cop is like that, but every cop knows they have some really bad seeds within their ranks; they need to start sounding off more and drop that blue steel curtain)
Sounds like entrapment to me.