exactly.
any bounty hunter or auto repossessor worth their salt would say the same. yet here a gov.t agency apparently fails at skip tracing. this is very poor investigative work. are they doing this out of imcompetency or to condition the citizenry ?
seems to me its both, & it is rotting our trust in the feds & local leo's.
read another story recently where the FBI made a similar mistake which induced a young child into fearing leo's.
Did a little bounty hunting. We’d call the place and ask them if the perp was there. They’d ask “why” and we’d tell them we had a ups package to delivery.
“Yeah, I’m here. What’s in the package?”
“We’re not allow to open the packages. We need an address where we can deliver it and a time you’ll be there to sign.”
“Heck far, I’m home right now.”
“I’ll be right there”. Then we’d go over and arrest the guy.
Another good ruse is tell the neighbors the guy is wanted for second degree murder. They’ll all give up a murderer. Hell, they thought he was just selling dope. He WAS just selling dope.
But feds have to go IN guns blazin’. We hardly ever went in with a gun loaded. When your mark hears the rack of that shotgun he’ll know the wrath of the Lord is near and he will surrender. Of course we knew he wasn’t armed or our guns would be loaded.
I didn’t do this line of work much. I felt like it could get addictive.
“Condition the citizenry”. Except only we’re a “population” not citizens anymore. Citizens have rights and are to be treated with respect.