Nope, it isn't. It's done every day. They used a Corvette in Houston for years to "entrap" would be thieves, until most everybody watched the video's on the 6 o'clock news of the honest citizens, tempted beyond all hope, jumped in the convertable and hotwired it, and forever had one more line on their rap sheet. Do you honestly believe an honest person would be tempted beyond all reason to steal something, just because the door was unlocked or a window was down? By arresting these perps, you get scum off the planet with the rest of us. I'll wager it wasn't their first time.
You may not like speed traps, or stake outs, but it is NOT entrapment. Police officers offer to buy and sell drugs every day, and the girl in fishnet hose may also pull out her badge when you offer up a fifty.
You attitude either comes from lack of experience, or you got busted buying a "dime bag" in the projects and thought it was unfair. You certainly know nothing about law. If the police just sat at the donut shop waiting for crime, all they would get is the cleanup of brain matter sprayed on walls and drawing the outlines on floors. A large portion of everyday police work is done with stakeouts. Don't you watch TV?
There is no such thing as an honest person. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. YOU could be just as tempted to steal from that car, if you thought you could get away with it, as anyone else. What the police are doing is INCITING a crime to be committed, which otherwise would not have been committed. That's called "entrapment".
You may not like speed traps, or stake outs, but it is NOT entrapment. Police officers offer to buy and sell drugs every day, and the girl in fishnet hose may also pull out her badge when you offer up a fifty.
This tells me you don't understand what "entrapment" is. A speed trap certainly is not entrapment - because the person committing the crime is ALREADY breaking the law when they are observed by police. Likewise, a fake drug buy is not entrapment because the police already have a suspect, and evidence that the perp is involved in previous and ongoing criminal activity - i.e. fake buys are part of things called "on-going investigations".
You attitude either comes from lack of experience, or you got busted buying a "dime bag" in the projects and thought it was unfair. You certainly know nothing about law. If the police just sat at the donut shop waiting for crime, all they would get is the cleanup of brain matter sprayed on walls and drawing the outlines on floors. A large portion of everyday police work is done with stakeouts. Don't you watch TV?
All I can conclude is that you're not a very smart individual. You do realise that a person can know something about the law, and oppose police entrapment, right? And you are aware that not everybody who opposes excessive police abuse just "hates the police because they got busted", right? And the dead giveaway that you are an idiot is that you think TV cop shows reflect reality. Please. How many hayseeds out there actually think CSI:Miami is the end-all and be all of how cops and the justice system operate? I laugh at least once during every CSI episode I see, because of some blatantly incorrect detail I seee in the show. One time, they even referred to an HPLC as a mass spectrometre. Don't tell me that I'll be informed if I jsut watch more TV cop shows.