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InactionMan
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2007-03-07, 23:21

Are these shows broadcast after the person has been brought to trial and convicted? Or are they broadcast the second they get some juicy footage? They whole deal seems rather slapdash compared to the rather exhaustive investigations in the pedophiles that you hear about on the news.

This show also isn't catching the real pedophiles, the ones are kidnapping and torturing children and setting up websites. They're catching pervy dopes that haven't actually acted on anything and may never act. But the show is more than willing to destroy their lives. Pedophiles and sexual predators seem to inspire such rancour amongst law enforcement (and the general public) that police are willing to act in a slightly dubious manner.

This show reminds of the giant police bust a few years ago involving cops from the U.S. and Canada (and I think Britain) called Operation Snowball. It was supposed to be one of the biggest bust of a child porn ring in history and police were saying that it would lead to hundreds of arrests. In then end they ended up investigating and charging hundreds of innocent men. They were publicly humiliated in the same way this show does and in then end very few of them ever received an apology. A significant number of the men accused have since committed suicide because of the stigma attached to these kinds of accusations.

So, I guess the point of this long-ass post is that when you're investigating pedophiles you should be extra cautious because you don't want to falsely accuse someone of this kind of crime and equally important, you don't want shoddy police work leading to a pedophile being set free.

Last edited by InactionMan : 2007-03-07 at 23:58.
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