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Originally posted by Phaenx
Did you see the video of the undercover cop posing as a drunk hobo trying to get people to take his money? It's on real tv sometimes, the guy will take his wallet or something and this bigass dude will blindside the crook and put him in cuffs, it's great.
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I'm all for the police posing as whatever to catch criminals in the act, however, I think that posing as a drunk person so that someone can steal your wallet is kinda pushing the line. Basically it's entrapment. In the first scenario the police aren't encouraging you to break the law, they're simply devising new ways of observation, nothing wrong with that. In the second scenario they're tempting people to do things they wouldn't normally do then bust them for it, very many things wrong with this.