Did you at least have the decency to meet at a place other than a Motel 6?

Saidme,
There are two sides of the issue you must look at when it comes to police officers posing as underage children looking for sex.
I knew a local detective who's job it was to do so.  He talked to hundreds, sometimes thousands of men on the internet posing as a thirteen year old nympho before he finally caught someone.  He ended up getting a guy from out of state on a first offense for crossing state lines with the intention of having sex with a minor.
Let's look at the pros and cons of this.
Pro:  The police officer prevented a potential future meeting of a willing, sexually active young girl and a sexually deviant man.  The outcome of that sitation would have probably ended in sex between the individuals.
Cons:1)  The police officer basically caused hundreds of thousands of men online to think that there are actually thirteen-year-old girls online looking for sex with older men.  This was a falsity, that probably in itself led to the perpetuation of the crime the police officer was trying to stop.  It probably got some men curious and led them to keep looking for young girls online.
2)  The police officer hooked a man on a first time offense, a man who might have never committed the crime if he had never had the chance.  We are all potential theives walking around.  What would you do if you found a million dollars sitting all alone in a open, country field.  If you took a single dollar you would be a thief.  Why don't police officers just to that?  Why don't they leave money laying in the streets and wait in the shadows for someone to pick it up and arrest them for theft?  Because it would obviously be entrapment and would be wrong.   

Your an idealist Saidme.  It is obvious from what you write.  I used to be like you.  But through life experience and through mistakes of my own I have come to realize not everything is black and white.
There are grey zones out there and the justice system is full of them.   

-OkieBoy

Saidme,
Naturally, I don't live for the day I get your "seal of approval", so your comments don't bother me. OkieBoy has done a good job, but I will add to it.
Anybody who pretends to be a minor and engages in sexual discussions with adults has a mental problem. The fact that they do it under the guise of law enforcement does not change that. The Internet is rife with "teen" chat rooms that have no teens in them, only 40 year-old cops pretending to be teenagers. The true "sexual predators" out there aren't stupid enough to frequent these chat rooms, so I see the whole thing as a waste of resources. There is enough crime in the world without the police creating new ones. 
For the record, I'm also opposed to cops pretending to be prostitutes so they can bust johns, cops confiscating drugs and then re-selling them to bust buyers, etc.

Orolan

You write:  "The fact that they do it under the guise of law enforcement does not change that."

Your statement leads one to believe that law enforcement officers are really doing their job to get their jollies as opposed to putting sexual predators in jail.   

You're pretty much anti anything.  Maybe George can create an anti cop website which is probably more in line what you're looking for.  You're a complete bonehead.

George

Doesn't it bother you just a bit when you see the caliber of people you attract to your ludicrous view?

I really hate to say this, but it’s not cops getting jollies or protecting the street. Plain and simple, they found out there is a gold mine in internet entrapments where the “felon” knows good and well to fight it is likened to defending  religious beliefs during the Salem witch trails. Shut up, do your legal “bribery” and go about your business.  I know that the “city” where I was lead to has a statistically biased rate of “protecting” children from sexual predators. I am still working on the class action suite approach, but I need to wait for them to get really greedy for the almighty $$$.  Current calculations from that town would indicate around 13 million US citizens are sexual predators. And by the other stats I have seen, there should be 40,000,000 missing children per year in that case.

Sad thing is the real offenders are more common sense I feel and are getting  by with it while others are placed into the system to line their pockets.

Aldo

I kind of disagree, I think most people who become HP or policepersons really want to help and serve. Problem is that there is a darker sort out there much worse than the current priest issue.   

I think most HP does not want to see your brains splattered all over the highway. Many reasons I would assume:

1. It would make them physically ill(the ones that like that want vice/sex/drugs assignments, not HP).

2. They would carry that thought home with them, and I'm sure they want to go home happy as much as we do.

3. If you do spatter your brains, the following occurs:
   a. You no longer pay speeding tickets(loss of revenue).
   b. You no longer pay income taxes just when you   
      were getting or already paying them(the main 
      reason it's a law driven by the feds).
   c. You dependents(if any), becomes more of a burden
      to the systems that already is siphoned for more
      "needy" people that is 2 public servants paid by
      the one they take care of or inflect there will on.
   d. There is a mess to clean up which cost money.
   e. Insurance has to pay out(yep, they lobby well).
   f.  You no longer buy gas, clothes, houses, etc.
      (Again, look at all those taxes lost).

Ok, to get blunt on this, when did the slaves start running their masters. I pay them, they do not earn
there own way in the world. Live off of the live flesh of those who do earn there own way.

Or am I just an exception with a dark view of those who live off of tax revenue that I send them(and a hell of a lot of it, paid more income taxes per year than they earn!).

Aldo 'he that vents lives longer' or is it better?

counterviews anyone?

I guess I am speaking of politicians and there puppet masters as well as the puppets they control. Very astute.

Aldo