What do we do about these motherfucking cops in this country?

[DonCoquixote]

127. True, but that does not solve the problem

Do you expect criminals to stop lying, be they muggers or wall street crooks, Mafiosi or Hell's angels. Criminals will lie, and to think that they will swim into the net by being honest is foolish. Some people cannot nor will not be reasoned with.

For example, let's take "to catch a predator", now, what happened with this was, you had people posing a decoys, in room known to have child sexual predators. Said predators would then try to arrange to meet the child to have a liason, driving miles out of town. Now, most of the shock in that series comes from when you watch people, who had driven so far, come and find that cops were waiting instead of kids. Add to this that many of the pedos were repeat offenders, one memorable case involved someone who, after saying he would never do this again 24 hours ago, did the same thing again, only to run into another decoy.

Now, was deception an important tool, yes, because you were dealing with people who themselves were willing and able to deceive, and who targeted children because they were more vulnerable. If Cops could never lie, then stings like this would fail, and then we would wonder how come we never ever ever seem to catch pedos.