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Don't forget the "War on Touror" wherein undercover police officers hand out $1000 fines to college kids after they've asked them to give an impromptu history t

• simcop2387 12y ago
  Any sources for that, it's hard to find anything googling that, and it sounds like a pretty open and shut case of entrapment on the surface.
  • 67726e 12y ago
    Source[0] I'm not a lawyer, but the police can ask you to perform a crime and bust you for it if "you were inclined to commit the crime anyway" or something like that. The rule of thumb is like if a tourist walked up and asked for a tour, would the suspect do it then? If so a cop can nab you for it. The sting revolves around Charleston licensing tour guides who must pass a pretty hard test and the rickshaw/bike-taxi operator not having taken/passed that test. Of course there was a recent case in Washington D.C. where the same law regarding tour guides was recently struck down[1], so who knows if he could have fought it. Last I heard the guy who got busted was paying his fine in installments. [0] - http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140122/PC16/140129828 http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140122/PC16/14012982... [1] - http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-freespeech-tourguides-court-20140711-story.html http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-freespeech-t...