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josh TX	Sep 21 2008, 03:58 AM
Monsterland Hall Of Famer Posts: 3,345 Group: Administrator(staff) Member #80 Joined: July 29, 2007	I've seen and heard of forms of "entrapment" used quite often, mainly in the large cities I've lived in, to catch street junkies. Often an undercover cop will pose as a dealer, then lead a potential buyer to a van where they are arrested immediately after they agree to a sale. A similar practice is used to nail people who buy prostitutes. While it seems like a noble effort to clean up the streets, I think in this particular case that police are just playing "whack-a-mole". Most of the addicts they pick up are small time nickel and dime junkies that are already too addicted to even care if they are arrested on a misdemeanor charge, hell most of them could care less if they lived or died in many cases. So the police arrest them, and they'll be back out on the street in two or three days. It just doesn't seem productive in this sense.


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