Posted on 10/21/2019 11:10:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
How do you catch a predator in Sarasota, Florida? You create one.
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) is going to "outrageous lengths" to make law-abiding lonely guys into sex offenders. That's according to Noah Pransky, a fearless journalist who has been covering Florida's addiction to entrapment for years.
In September, SCSO arrested 23 men for allegedly soliciting underage girls for sex. Pransky's most recent piece in Florida Politics chronicles the elaborate back and forth between one of those men and a police officer pretending to be a young female. Pransky writes:
In one example from a 2017 operation, SCSO spent two days trying to seduce a 20-year-old man who showed no interest in having sex with a child. Detectives, who posted an ad for an 18-year-old woman on Tinder, matched with the young man and proceeded to swap "getting-to-know-you" texts for more than an hour; only then did detectives tell the man he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl, not an 18-year-old.
Undercover detectives continued to try and talk about sex with the man the next day; he again rebuffed the attempts, but continued the small talk because he indicated he was bored. Detectives then sent unsolicited, flirty photos to the man; a tactic that violates best practices and ethical standards for this type of stings.
The terrible thing about this case is that the sheriff's office is not trying to save any actual kids. It is just trying to get an easy win.
Most parents who worry about predators online are picturing a creepy guy lurking on some kiddie site where he lures unsuspecting youngsters away to a sordid encounter at the Dairy Queen.
But the SCSO folks flip that scenario entirely. They log onto adult sites, claiming to be adult age. It's only once they establish some kind of bond with an adult who went online hoping to find a legal-age companion that they then confess that they are underage.
SNIP
Sue the bastards
Crime is so low in this country that the cops apparently have to manufacture criminals in order to justify their budgets.
only then did detectives tell the man he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl, not an 18-year-old...
And the guy was 20?
And then he kept chatting with her because he was “bored”?
GTF out of here.
Entrapment or luring or whatever, he went for it.
How many her would have at 20?
Not me.
Another unbelievable case today. That is reprehensible behavior by the cops. The young man was chatting with a woman who claimed she was 18. At the last minute, the cops shout “Busted! Ha! She’s a 25 year old woman masquerading as a 14 year old girl and you thought she was 18!”
On the bright side, at least the young man wasn’t shot and killed by the cops.
Poor guy’s life is ruined by these crooked cops.
The same is true of racism. Leftwing demand for racism far out paces supply, so they manufacture it - over and over and over.
Chatting isn’t illegal and it appears the man steered well clear of the legal mines.
Keep in mind that in many online games that are for all ages, people from 12-70+ are talking to each other for game purposes or just socially while playing and this is fine. Internet chatting is different from real life in this respect.
Was this where Robert Kraft was nabbed?
“take a seat..”
“” “” In one example from a 2017 operation, SCSO spent two days trying to seduce a 20-year-old man who showed no interest in having sex with a child. Detectives, who posted an ad for an 18-year-old woman on Tinder, matched with the young man and proceeded to swap “getting-to-know-you” texts for more than an hour; only then did detectives tell the man he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl, not an 18-year-old.”” “”
At this point it makes sense to subordinate US judiciary under international jurisdiction. That is exactly why US has the highest prisoner population worldwide.
Or many cops are child molesters and by getting arrests they can hide their own pedophile acts
Ah, I was too lazy to open the article and see what he was arrested for :)
Now I have to read MORE
Thanks a lot :)
I think it is partially the case.
Speaking of today’s young women, I went to my niece’s Sweet 16 on Saturday and there were about 40 girls invited.
Most of their skirts may as well have been shirts.
I don’t get the parents that let them go to parties dressed like that.
I told my younger nephews don’t let them rope you in. That’s how they fool you. They get you while everything is still defying gravity and 30 years later you’re in prison, er marriage for life :)
The man in the title wasn’t arrested or charged - he was actually an employee of the organization attempting the entrapment and was pressured to resign despite his lack of wrongdoing. If they could have charged him, they would have.
No, it has zero to do with why the United States has such a high prisoner rate.
That’s what the guy eventually did, actually.
Some cops probably believe they’re saving the world from pedophiles even if they have to manufacture them out of whole cloth. Others are likely titillated by these role playing entrapments.
There is another angle to this as well. A high percentage of the “perps” are socially deficient/autistic and are so damn lonely this kind of entrapment is like dragging a steak in front of a starving dog. Fish in a barrel have a better chance against a shotgun.
These socially deficient/high-functioning (they may be able to drive, etc) autistic types are also putty in the hands of car dealers, etc. They will buy a car with an monthly payment equal to their salary, they just can’t say no to predatory salesmen. It’s criminal to me. The salesmen don’t care, once the deal is signed, they get their commission. The poor sap gets his car repo’d, it doesn’t matter to the salesman. The same happens with telemarketers etc.
So to lure these lonely men with girls they later find out are underage, is evil, if not criminal.
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