Prosecuting so-called "victimless crimes" (such as narcotics offenses, prostitution, and pornography distribution) relies heavily on sting operations in which undercover officers posing as fellow criminals gain the confidence of suspects and catch them dirty. Other kinds of crimes can also involve a suspect's misplaced trust in an undercover agent, including bribery, fencing, auto theft, sale of alcohol to minors, and even solicitation for murder.
When working these kinds of cases, you're allowed to go to certain lengths to create opportunities for crimes or to fool suspects into thinking you're a lawbreaker yourself so as to induce them to attempt or commit a crime, for which you can then arrest them. But there's a limit. If you exceed it, you allow the suspect to raise a defense of entrapment.
Read More At: http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2008/10/entrapment.aspx#.VDhE7WlviwU.bloggerMy Thoughts:
Common sense...anyone ACCUSING another of being an officer or under
cover or co-operative is probably not who they say they are! And maybe
trying to create confusion of a mask for themselves!!!
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