These people do not change their stripes. I’ve watched that Dateline show and some of the guys they pop show up again and again. They are sick.

Being exposed on national television must be extremely embarassing and is probably more of a deterrent than the threat of prison. The part of all this that seems wrong to me is having a TV show take on police powers. These stings are something that the police ONLY should be doing, not some private production outfit out to make a lot of money from sleaze. The police can do their own predator documentaries legally just as NBC does, and put the profits to good use.

As for the prosecutors, too often they go for convictions regardless of the evidence, if they think they can win anyway, as their jobs are political positions and they can get voted out with a bad conviction record. This is a really poor arrangement and antithetical to true justice.

When I was in College, the last time anyways, we were asked to help out a Psych Professor with a research project…

It involved sexual predation on the INTERNET, enough said. I did MSN Chat Rooms, Samuel did AOL, and Michael did the Yahoo Chat rooms. There were also nine ladies that were part of the study.

We recorded via paste methods to notepad everything that occurred. Now, please bear in mind, that the Colorado legislature had just changed the age of consent laws, and that it never got any big time publicity.

Among our self imposed rules were that we would never ask, or entice anyone for anything sexual. That included what has become to be known as cyber sex.

Anyways, Michael was propositioned one evening, by a 17 year old female, that sounded pretty sincere. He acquiesced, after the third night of offers/pleads and agreed to meet her. (That was a ruse, he recorded everything, and brought it to the Professor the next morning.)

Michael returned to his home in Arvada. Opened the door of his car, got out, and was rushed, and tackled without warning (per independent witness’s) slammed to the driveway in a classic combat tackle that broke all of his front teeth ( both uppers and lowers! Great technique!) and taken to jail for sexual assault on a child under the age of 18…

The “girl” was in fact, a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy. The fact that the “meet” never happened didn’t matter under Colorado law. The FACT, that the age of consent law had been changed the day before without real notification to the public didn’t matter. The FACT, that, as was brought up at trial, was that it was a study by a bona fide Professor about sexual predation on the INTERNET didn’t matter.

Fred, My Brother, Michael went to the Department of Corrections, where he used a sheet to hang himself. He died.

Leave these things to the Police for God’s sakes! But use your God given brains in the process!

How, I ask, on earth…

Can we trust those entrusted to protect us?
I was God Damned Training Officer for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department!

I have no room for anyone that sodomizes a 4 year old. I also have no room for Prosecutors that concvict innocent people just because they can.