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Topic: To Catch A Predator?
JTstrang Joined Thu 05/22/08 Posts: 697	Sun 06/15/08 05:25 PM
If you aren't familiar with the TV show "To Catch a Predator" it is a show were people chat with men posed as underage kids. When the men talk about sex and ask for a meeting Dateline's Chris Hanson meets the possible pedophile with a camera. My question is, Is this Journalism or entertainment? And should the media play the part of being an extension of the law? And while they do so is this Entrapment?

MAKE_ME_GIGGLE Joined Thu 02/07/08 Posts: 5376	Sun 06/15/08 05:26 PM
yeah..it's entrapment... but the men set themselves up for it, and if it was my kid they were perving... they'd be glad to meet chris hanson and not me

DREAMZ Joined Sat 05/31/08 Posts: 1775	Sun 06/15/08 05:27 PM
who cares......get the scumbags off the streets and lockem up with bubba!

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sun 06/15/08 05:27 PM
I kinda feel like Im on that show when I get emails from 18 and 19 years olds on JSH

ccindyct Joined Sat 01/12/08 Posts: 703	Sun 06/15/08 05:28 PM
I think that is a great show, but both entertainment and journalism. I have, however wondered about the entrapment issue as well, like on COPS when they set up a bait car or a bike for someone to steal....what constitutes entrapment?

JTstrang Joined Thu 05/22/08 Posts: 697	Sun 06/15/08 05:28 PM
Just to clarify, I am not defending the alleged pedophiles, but just curious as to what others think about this.

iRon Joined Tue 04/10/07 Posts: 2786	Sun 06/15/08 05:28 PM
I did not know there was a difference anymore

Jim519 Joined Thu 12/27/07 Posts: 9203	Sun 06/15/08 05:28 PM
Regardless of what anyone calls it..I feel the sick people should have zero rights. Entrapment, Journalism, whatever it may be...Whatever it takes to expose these people to the media should be done... THen hang them by their nutz and castrate them

Etrain Joined Wed 11/21/07 Posts: 19684	Sun 06/15/08 05:29 PM
They lost there rights talking to underage women...they should all get a bullet in the head

grneyedldy1967 Joined Wed 04/30/08 Posts: 2854	Sun 06/15/08 05:29 PM
Who cares if it's entrapment or not.. the men think they are talking to underage kids and go there expecting to have sex. So they themselves chose to break the law therefore they should be locked under the jail!

trace78 Joined Fri 03/21/08 Posts: 284	Sun 06/15/08 05:29 PM
its actually standard police tactics, also now considered entertainment, but if the police or the government dont consider it an issue ( or dont have enough of our tax dollars to establish a unit for it) until after the media glorifies it, then the help should be appreciated and not criticized. Just an opinion.

ccindyct Joined Sat 01/12/08 Posts: 703	Sun 06/15/08 05:30 PM
I kinda feel like Im on that show when I get emails from 18 and 19 years olds on JSH Well, as long as they say they are of legal age, you're safe!

JTstrang Joined Thu 05/22/08 Posts: 697	Sun 06/15/08 05:30 PM
Entraptment is when it is the law enforcements idea to commit the crime. Just providing the opportunity is not. However, some of the conversations they use are someone intiated by the online group. They say it isn't entrapment because they don't initiate the sexual talk.

sandradee1961 Joined Mon 03/10/08 Posts: 1411	Sun 06/15/08 05:30 PM
I kinda feel like Im on that show when I get emails from 18 and 19 years olds on JSH Funny, Mirror. I've been approached by boys in their 20's. I have kids that are in their 20's.

BatCountry Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 1383	Sun 06/15/08 05:30 PM
They lost there rights talking to underage women...they should all get a bullet in the head

livelife68 Joined Sun 12/30/07 Posts: 3696	Sun 06/15/08 05:32 PM
It's both journalism and entertainment. As long as criminals are being caught then let the media be an extension to the law. Pedophiles entrap so why not beat them at their own game.

sam53 Joined Wed 03/12/08 Posts: 2073	Sun 06/15/08 05:32 PM
If you aren't familiar with the TV show "To Catch a Predator" it is a show were people chat with men posed as underage kids. When the men talk about sex and ask for a meeting Dateline's Chris Hanson meets the possible pedophile with a camera. My question is, Is this Journalism or entertainment? And should the media play the part of being an extension of the law? And while they do so is this Entrapment? I love the show and I give an A+ . Let them catch the pedophiles and let the pedophiles rot in jails . Use any tricks to catch criminals and I am with you . Children and society must be protected from dirt .

Lily0923 Joined Sun 12/02/07 Posts: 20429	Sun 06/15/08 05:32 PM
It's the same with undercover drug busts... what's the difference? Entrap em' cuz if one talks to my daughter, there will be a few angry Irish on their ass, and they'd pray for the cops to come.

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sun 06/15/08 05:32 PM
I kinda feel like Im on that show when I get emails from 18 and 19 years olds on JSH Well, as long as they say they are of legal age, you're safe! I know But I also know for a fact that there have been underage girls on here saying they are over 18

JTstrang Joined Thu 05/22/08 Posts: 697	Sun 06/15/08 05:32 PM
Regardless of what anyone calls it..I feel the sick people should have zero rights. Entrapment, Journalism, whatever it may be...Whatever it takes to expose these people to the media should be done... THen hang them by their nutz and castrate them Then when do others rights begin and end? once we start stripping away rights and police standards we become more like the criminals we are trying to protect society from.