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Why don't you donate the old Volvo if you still have it? That damn thing was a magnet for criminals a year or so ago.

Don't they call that sort of thing entrapment? Leaving a laptop visible could temp many people.

No they don't call that sort of thing entrapment. Entrapment would occur if an undercover officer told them he knew of a laptop computer in an unattended car. These juveniles needed no help or encouragement to commit their crime.

I like it.

The little sumbitches may be 14, but I'll bet they have the street smarts of a 21-year-old. Knock 'em up side their criminal heads and book 'em, I say.

Leaving out an unattended car is not entrapment.
Doing a Jerry Seinfeld and throwing the keys in the seat and walking away while being watched isn't entrapment.

Walking up to someone and offering them money to steal a car or telling them that if they steal that car they know where they could get a good price for it if they would just go steal it is entrapment.

The police can provide you with an opportunity to commit a crime, they just can't initiate the crime.

Comes up in the internet stings that are so popular. If the cop claims to be a 12 year old girl looking for old men to have sex with, that's entrapment. If the cop claims to be a 12 year old girl looking to talk about the Jonas Brothers and the old guy steers the conversation to hooking up for sex, that's not entrapment.

"Entrapment is the act of a law enforcement agent in inducing a person to commit an offence which the person would not have, or was unlikely to have, otherwise committed."

Similarly speaking, if the undercover cop pretends on the Internet to be an unattended car with a laptop on the front seat....

Wait a minute...

Seriously, they don't even go to juvenile hall for that? If I ever caught the little bastards who stole my car, took it joyriding and plowed it into a telephone pole on 14th St. last year... well, I probably wouldn't do anything because they'd kill me. You steal a car and you don't even spend a night in jail? They used to kill horse thieves. Can't we find a happy medium?

This is eggzackly what the state Repubs did to those mischievous Dems..left their headquarters unguarded...however, the Dems were a day early..today is the Anniversary of the Watergate Break-in---Jun 17, 19-ought-72!

Nine comments so far and nobody has said, " Dont the cops have anything better to do ". We are making progress folks! I guess everbody has a car and kinda knows what it would feel like if some punk took it. I guess everbody dont have a 12 year old daughter....

I have a 12 year old daughter.
The cops aren't doing anything that's going to make her safer because she's not stupid.
It creeps me out to think of some middle-aged cop impersonating her. That's sick, sick, sick.

>>Nine comments so far and nobody has said, " Dont the cops have anything better to do ". <<

Considering the violence that has been involved with car thefts in the Little Rock area, I'd say that using decoy cars to catch thieves rather than taking a report from a car theft victim at the hospital is a good use of resources.

Good. Catch the little !*!*$! SOB and then punish their parents for good measure.

Well:

Most car thefts, although certainly not all, are gang related or part of another "organized" crime group. A few are kids joyriding, but either way catching them is going to have an effect on overall crime. Its big business, like drugs, and almost as violent.

Damn, just used my quota of rationed fact based thought for the day... back to drooling and chasing shiny objects for me today.

Oops.. sorry Well... I was agreeing with you. I guess I used my quota earlier than I thought.... dribble..dribble....

Didn't some Little Rock cops shoot and kill someone about a year ago during one of these set ups? From what I remember that time the person stole the car and then tried to run the cops over.

How about the vice squard taking some sweet young 20 year old thing to a beauty salon with $150 in taxpayer funds with instructions to make her look like she's 35 going on 40, and then sending her around town to buy beer or wine from store clerks or bartenders? Is that entrapment?

EXCUSE ME, BUT LETS CALL IT WHAT IT IS, RIGHT AND WRONG. WE HAVE ALL BEEN TAUGHT, ITS NOT ANOTHER WORD FOR ENTRAPMENT, THE MEASURE OF THE INTEGRITY OF ANYONE IS WHAT THEY DO WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING. ENOUGH OF THE WHINING AND LETTING KIDS GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING THEY WANT TO. AM SICK OF HEARING, THEYRE TOO SENSITIVE, TOO YOUNG, TOO BLACK, TOO WHITE, IF YOU DONT TEACH THEM RIGHT FROM WRONG, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET. WHAT HAPPEND TO THE GOOD OLD CURFEW WE "KIDS" GREW UP OBEYING, MAYBE OUR WONDERFUL CITY LEADERS NEED TO GET THAT BACK ON THE BOOKS AGAIN. OH,NO, JUST FORGOT. THE ACLU WILL HAVE NONE OF THAT, RACIALLY NOT FAIR WHATEVER THAT IS SUPPOSEDE TO MEAN.
LETS JUST GIVE THEM A BASKETBALL AND A LIGHTED COURT FOR MIDNIGHT GAMES.
. GIVE ME A BREAK, THESE THINGS DONT TAKE A ROCKET SICIENTIST TO FIGURE OUT.
AND BY THE WAY, BREAKING NEWS, THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR ACTIONS. GET WITH IT DEMS. THIS IS NOT ANOTHER ENTITLEMENT SOLOUTION. DONT YOU PEOPLE EVER LEARN. IF YOU DO, YOU SURE ARENT TEACHING ANYONE ELSE WHAT YOU DID LEARN. GET OFF THE FENCE OR THE POT OR WHATEVER YOU ARE STRADDLING AND GET SOMETHING GOING THAT MAKES SENSE. LET THOSE KIDS CUT THE GRASS ALL OVER THIS JUNGLEY LOOKING CITY IF NOTHING ELSE. WE NEED MORE OF THE ELSIE DYCKES OF THIS CITY AT THE HELM. THE LADY WHO MADE HER CHILD WHO BULLIED WEAR A SIGN AND PAY THE PRICE. BET HE DOESNT DO THAT AGAIN.. USE YOUR HEADS , COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WORKS, CALL HER IF YOU NEED HELP.
WHAT REALLY MAKES ME SAD IS THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR THESE IN THE FIRST PLACE. SHAME ON US.

THEY ARE ONLY DOING THEIR JOBS, AND WE ARE ALL STANDING AROUND BITCHING ABOUT IT. THEY CATCH IT IF THEY DO AND IF THEY DONT. YOU COULDNT PAY ME ENOUGH TO KEEP THIS CITY SAFE. THEY DO IT AND PRETTY DARN WELL.

CHEW ON THAT DBI AND YOUR BACTERIAL CLONES.
DARESAY NONE OF YOU GREW UP POOR. YOU JUST CANT TELL ME YOU DID.