Originally Posted by ngdawg

I agree about Nancy Grace. She's what's wrong with this system-a personal crusader/sole witchhunter with a mic and camera crew. Her bio is interesting (I believe it includes a fiance being murdered), but she uses her issues as her catalyst for thinking she's in the right. She could take some class lessons from John Walsh, who certainly has more of an axe to grind.
Ever watch those Dateline shows on CNBC that entraps guys who think they're going to have a 'fun time' with a teenager they stalked on the net?
After the guy(s) is confronted and tries to make haste out of there, he's surrounded by cops, guns drawn. There's been complaints from some of the neighborhoods used in these stings that their local police departments are being over-utilized in them and from what I've seen on these shows, it's true.
Do we really need 6 cops with guns out to take down one man?
I think that this, and Nancy (un)Grace feed into basic fears of parents, perhaps thinking that they somehow are SO much smarter than we are in safeguarding our kids. Granted, there are stupid parents, stupid kids, etc., but this fearmongering witchhunting serves little or no purpose. I got my information, I told the kids to be a bit more wary (not that they weren't already) and nothing in our lives has changed. I just think there's better ways of going about it and Nancy Grace ain't it.