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So, for clarification: Police are allowed to set up stings . if you walk in to a crack house and willingly buy crack, thats on you. You broke the law and the

So, for clarification: Police are allowed to set up stings . if you walk in to a crack house and willingly buy crack, thats on you. You broke the law and there was intention to do so. If the government say, gave you money and told you to invest it with their friend at glowcoin to dump it, that would be entrapment. Local us government agencies at the state level routinely get slapped down for entrapment. The FBI, not so much...

pests 2y ago
In my view it gets iffy in some situations. If they set up that crackhouse in a neighborhood with no crack, where no one knows where to get crack and there are no users... Then the person walking in wouldn't have been doing so if they didn't set up the trap in the first place. Giving it as an option.. allows a crime to be committed that otherwise wouldn't.