Right, which is why our law enforcement civil servants never want to show the public the chat transcripts, because their lies would be exposed. Hold them accountable too people!

These are 18 and over websites NOT 17 and under, therefore law enforcement should NOT have any jurisdiction to go to these websites to lure someone into a relationship that the website is NOT designed for and that the patrons there are also believing everyone there is 18 or over.
I don’t know anyone who goes into a bar hoping to socialize with someone under 21, because that is the age limit of the establishment.
The same kind of tactic could be used with a wallet that has $1500 in cash in it and has a fake ID with a gps chip purposefully left on the ground by the police in a park under video surveilance to see who picks up the wallet and steals the money, or takes off with it, and then the police catch them with it and arrest them for theft.
That is luring someone into committing a crime, and then prosecuting them, and that is entrapment, and that is what law enforcement is doing on these 18 and over websites;they are luring people into committing a crime they were not intending to commit the same as people don’t go to a park looking to find a wallet with someone else’s money.
There are people who might say, ‘you shouldn’t have fell for it’, and they are right and if this was a perfect world, people wouldn’t, but here is a news flash-this is NOT a perfect world, and it is WRONG for anyone, especially law enforcement, to exploit human imperfection, which we ALL have, in order to make an arrest.
None of us is perfect, no one, it’s just a matter of where each one’s imperfections lie, and what situations cause them to manifest themselves, and given the right situation they will.

SO AS A VICTIM AND SURVIVOR OF SEXUAL ABUSE AS A TEENAGER. that has had 10000000 x less effect on me then being a VICTIM OF AN IMPAIRED DRIVER!

SO, in summary, all you haters out there STOP DRINKING THE KOOLAID AND DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY OF OR GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF DRINKING THE KOOLAID THINKING THE BOGGY MAN IS HIDING IN THE BUSH AT THE PARK. BUT IS ACTUALLY THE cop next door or at the school, or coach there not on some perceived list! get with the program! and if you still wanna come here hatting then FU and i hope you rot in that special place that i associate a person in red with horns, pitch fork and a tail!!!! Because you think it’s ok to put people that for the most part on a preceived very bad boogy man list that and we are waiting around the corner to jump out a rape you! Please research the facta very few is like that maybe 5% cause if it was true in part the recidivism rate for a new sex offence would be high and that simply is not true! even state and federal government have reports out with those percentages! then a bunch more will include things like not reporting your mom or dads car when they visited you for 2 or 3 days during the holidays, or starting a new job and can’t get a day off right away to drive an hour to the police and wait there who knows how long to report that you have a new job so your arrested with a felony and are sent to prison for 5 years! yes this stuff does happen and it’s reality! all while these impaired drivers are still out there and nothing is getting done!

The hit list is nothing more then SMOKE & MIRRORS! AN ILLUSION! A FALSE PERCEPTION! STOP DRINKING THE KOOLAID! DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY!

WELL AFTER 25 YEARS ON THE HIT LIST I JUST FINALLY TOLD YOU LIKE IT IS AND GUESS WHAT! I’M PROUD OF IT! AND I WOULD TELL THIS TO YOUR FACE OR ON STAGE AT A CROWED ROOM! I suffer more and more each and every day being a victim of a impaired driver then being a victim of a sex offender!

sorry, well not really!

Love you Gail. Happy to preach the truth.

I think we all agree with you there, Nancy, and no one “feels sorry” or condones this behavior. It’s wrong. Don’t do it.

But it seems the Public is never given an opportunity, as outsiders looking in, that this is so much more about mental illness, despair, effects of trauma, family issues, life stresses and their own suffering from abuse. Everyone wants to be loved, to be liked, to be desired. These guys found themselves in a situation where they say to themselves, look wow, this good looking person likes ME, wants to be with Me, wants to meet ME and the fact that they are in high school. (yes a minor obviously) gets quickly pushed aside in favor of wanting to overcome, to feel better these other things.

It may be a sappy, overly sympathetic way of interpreting this, and this sting especially has troubled me, but I’ve come to believe that this is closer to the truth. Much closer than a public warning of “Monsters on the Internet waiting to rape a child.” If we keep talking, keep speaking up, the tide will change. The Truth always prevails in the end.

Please whenever, wherever you can speak the truth behind these sickening stings operations.

@DVC
But then how would the police departments make sooo much money, like they do now through ICAC funding to run these stings. Plus they get so many cudo’s from the public, for a “job well done” and they look like hero’s. Just sickens me!