Da Coppers & Entrapment

One of the longest-running and most awful shows on television has been the show "COPS."

Since the show premiered on March 11, 1989, I have watched a whopping 30-40 mins of this "show."

I find this show to be dreadful and I think it shows what asshats cops generally are. I have contempt for the practices often featured in the bits of the show I have seen.

I am all for entrapment when it comes to big time crime like murder, fraud, etc...but I have seen cops use the standard of probable cause as a total joke and pull people over for no serious reason.

The ends do not justify the means in these cases. Most of the cases I find annoying involve drugs and/or prostitution. This could be because I believe we should legalize prostitution and at least decriminalize most drugs.

This story from Reason Magazine shows what asshats vice cops are: A former cop bought two small xmas trees and grew them inside a rented house utilizing lights often/usually used to grow marijuana. What do you know, the cops forged an affidavit, used illegal technology as defined by the Supreme Court to detect those types of lights from outside the house, and proceeded to bust into the house only to find two xmas trees growing and NOT some marijuana plants. WHOOPS!!!

This kind of cop "work" is bullshit and it's exactly the type of shit we should NOT be wasting our time on in a time when the world is exposed to terrorists. Everyday hundreds, if not thousands, of shipping containers get shipped into US ports and are not inspected because some knucklehead cop is getting his jollies off busting people who do some weed.