It is a complex situation. The worst case scenario from these entrapment operations is the FBI incentives people into a committing a crime they would otherwise

It is a complex situation. The worst case scenario from these entrapment operations is the FBI incentives people into a committing a crime they would otherwise not have committed. The end result is more crime, but maybe it kind of nets out because FBI has 100% success and victims are made whole but then you have the sunk cost of this FBI work. The more optimal case is the FBI nabs people who would have otherwise committed another crime and this is a more efficient way of dealing with these people than investigating real crimes. My concern is the FBI doesn’t actually try and determine which is the best allocation of resources but just presses the button that makes the FBI look best. Investigating real crimes is a lot more difficult than investigating these ‘sting’ crimes so if investigating ‘sting’ crimes was less efficient then it might be incorrectly priotized.