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This reminds me of the incident in Florida where a teenager fell in love with an undercover cop stationed in a high school, who did not smoke pot, but after the
by codyb 13y ago
This reminds me of the incident in Florida where a teenager fell in love with an undercover cop stationed in a high school, who did not smoke pot, but after the cop insisted he get her marijuana, he was arrested.
This article talks about that and a bunch of other stings. An undercover cop in NYC tells someone he has an iPhone for sale and he really needs money to feed his daughter.
It's pretty sickening.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/teen-falls-in-love-undercover-cop-marijuana-operation_n_1291823.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/teen-falls-in-love-...
I think there's been plenty of times NYPD has baited Muslims in mosques.
And the FBI has been known to do the same thing. Cooking up terrorist plots and hoping people will join them. Ridiculous.
- patrickod 13y agoNPR ran a story about 3-4 months ago where they interviewed this teenager in Florida while recounting the story. I couldn't believe my ears. It sounded like textbook entrapment. Are the police in these areas so desperate for drug-related arrests that they'd use tactics like this? IIRC the case ended up being her word against his on the key points of his conviction. That too rubbed me entirely the wrong way. To first lure him in and then use only one person's testimony to clinch the conviction sounds totally unjust. EDIT: Link to the This American Life story about Justin's case http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/what-i-did-for-love?act=2 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/w...