Dr. Phil to feature Police ICAC proactive stings.
The Dr. Phil Show airing on CBS will air an episode featuring Sex Stings next Monday, December 7, 2020.
The show will feature an FAC member whose son was targeted in one of these stings who has been fighting to expose them since. Also featured is Florida attorney Peter Aiken of Aiken, O’Halloran and Associates, who defends people caught up in these stings.
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Thanks Aracely. I’m not a Dr. Phil fan but will try to watch.
GREEDY GRADY JUDD, is the POSTER BOY of STING OPERATIONS….HE should be featured so the WORLD can see HIS FICTITIOUS NASTINESS!
SPENDING COUNTLESS TAXPAYER DOLLARS EATING PIZZA AND BLOOMIN’ ONIONS WHILE SITTING IN THE STING HOUSES LAUGHING AT EVERYONE….THIS IS ONE REAL SICK PUPPY!
TRUTHS ARE TRUTHS…FACTS ARE FACTS!
It was pretty disappointing that Dr. Phil defended the police’s actions (entrapping vulnerable individuals on adult sites), but I think it was more that he just didn’t fully understand that police had advertised themselves on an adult site to adults who were seeking a casual encounter/no strings attached, which typically means casual sex and posed as someone who was also seeking and offering that. He used these stories to send a message out to parents about the dangers of minors being online and the possibility of them coming across adults and developing inappropriate relationships with adults, which has nothing to do with minors advertising themselves to random adult strangers on an adult site and offering casual sex to them, which is not even something that really happens. Therefore, there were no real minors protected by any of this. That’s something that many people still just can’t see.
So, the cases were misrepresented, but it did help us see exactly why it’s been so difficult to get anything done about these cases. It’s mainly because most people don’t understand that adults seeking casual sexual on adult sites is a thing, and that there is no such thing as minors seeking casual sex with adults on adult sites.
It’s also more clear now that police know very well they are not catching actual child predators. They are not trying to catch actual child predators. That’s the secret they don’t want to be known.
There’s a much higher payoff to just pretend to be catching child predators than to put in the work it takes to catch the real ones. They make more money this way (from funding, working overtime, and trapping more), and at the same time it benefits the careers of many of those working in the system (police, prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys, probation and parole, those that teach the sex offender classes, etc., the list goes on). They also make a lot more money from all that. Trapping vulnerable individuals on adult sites to label them as child predators is just not something they’re willing to give up.
Dr. Phil at least did point out that the men are not child predators and it’s not serving society’s best interest to throw these men in prison and put them on the sex offender registry. In fact, it’s putting society more at risk, increasing the risk of violence by putting non predators in prison where they are very likely to experience violence, including sexual violence; then releasing them to the public. Sounds incredibly reckless and irresponsible to me.
So in the end, it was major progress at least.
How do you know this? Did the show air already?
I know this because I was on it.
Awesome!!!
Everything I said about how police know that they are not catching actual child predators, how they are not really trying to catch real ones, they do it because it benefits careers, etc. is all stuff I was able to figure out after the taping of the show, based on how that went, based on talking to the police officer (that was also on the show) after the show, and based on talking to the defense attorney that was also on the show. Everything came together after all that. It’s more clear than ever now.
We did provide feedback to Dr. Phil, but it may just go ignored. We’ll see.
Thank you for this. It was very brave.
Thank you, Aracely, for this wise and in-depth discussion and for speaking out. Can’t wait to see the show!
I’m no fan of mr. Ego, aka Dr. Phil. But I will tune in to this one. I will say this now however, don’t be surprised if this show goes against us.
Bill, you’re right. It’s all in the final editing of the videos that matters. Interviews can be diced up to say anything they want in order to make the show achieve its objectives (to make them money).
Hopefully some integrity will be exercised in the production process.
This should be interesting, to say the least! “Dr.” Phil is an Oprah protogé who shares her warped values and will no doubt make FAC as well as other s/o advocates look like a bunch of perverted sex fiends!
John, you mentioned that Dr. Phil shares Oprah’s warped values. I couldn’t agree more. About 15 years ago, she did a show that was supposed to expose how easy it is to find CP online. FDLE tracked a guy for her show whose IP address was being used to download CP. They dragged an old fat man from his trailer home, wearing only his underwear. It made for the false stereotype the media moguls like Oprah want us to have. As it turned out, the man was innocent! His teenage son programmed the family computer to download porn while he was at school. The porn included underage porn. Oprah and her so called journalist never did any follow-up because they got the wrong guy. I’d like to know Dr. Phil’s and Oprah’s real take on this, but I’m sure they’ll never share it.
5 stars for Dr. Phil
This is the kind of exposure that can do some good if all goes well.
Yes your are right. When these stings get a full investigation you will find the lies and illegal dealings here in Washington State. One judge owns a newspaper and sits on the appellate court and was the only dissenting voice in an entrapment defense from a case where the lead detective changed texts, admitted he had no probable cause, admitted he kept texting the defendant cause he wasn’t showing up and wanted to see if he could get him to show up.
The stings are corrupt and dirty police work to the core. The police do not care about “saving children” or keeping communities safe. It is all a lie.
Didn’t you read the very first comment by Aracely (who said he was one of the people on the show)? It DIDN’T go well. Go back and read the comment.