2 ms·

It’s more like asking a cop if you can sit somewhere and they give you a look and won’t tell you, but 3 years after you sit down they book you for trespassing.

• mrguyorama 3y ago
  FYI, that is 100% something a cop can do in the US. They have no obligation to warn you not to commit a crime, and are legally allowed to even encourage you to do a crime. They can provide all the means and motivation to do a crime, and if a jury can be convinced that you would have crimed anyway if you had those resources through other means, it's not entrapment.
  • AbrahamParangi 3y ago
    I think a reasonable person would agree that if you ask a cop if you can do something and they won't answer but then take enforcement action against you later on, that would be bullshit.
• agentgumshoe 3y ago
  Of course that all depends on your belief that the cop didn't give you an earlier answer that you ignored. It acts like a security, smells like a security, trades like a security, but it's NOT A SECURITY, so give me new laws for this thing I won't define!