Young, Undercover Cops Flirted With Students to Trick Them Into Selling Pot

[marmar]

Sick: Young, Undercover Cops Flirted With Students to Trick Them Into Selling Pot


Working at the Drug Policy Alliance for the last twelve years I have read and heard countless stories of people having their lives ruined because of our country's cruel war on drugs. Last weekend, the nationally syndicated show This American Life highlighted a story that is so insane, you don't know whether to laugh or puke.

Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The undercover cops went to classes, became Facebook friends and flirted with the other students. One 18-year-old honor student named Justin fell in love with an attractive 25-year-old undercover cop after spending weeks sharing stories about their lives, texting and flirting with each other.

One day she asked Justin if he smoked pot. Even though he didn't smoke marijuana, the love-struck teen promised to help find some for her. Every couple of days she would text him asking if he had the marijuana. Finally, Justin was able to get it to her. She tried to give him $25 for the marijuana and he said he didn't want the money -- he got it for her as a present.

A short while later, the police did a big sweep and arrest 31 students -- including Justin. Almost all were charged with selling a small amount of marijuana to the undercover cops. Now Justin has a felony hanging over his head. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/789519/sick%3A_young%2C_undercover_cops_flirted_with_students_to_trick_them_into_selling_pot/

[RainDog]

2. hard at work protecting teens from... no one. n/t

[Proles]

3. Thats just wrong.

Is this really a worthwhile use of expenditures??

[JHB]

28. Whoever gets performance-evaluated by number of arrests thinks so. n/t

[MrSlayer]

4. Disgusting.

Entrapment, fraud, dispicable behavior.

[limpyhobbler]

5. A huge waste of public money.

We would literally be better off throwing our money down a rat hole.

[MadHound]

6. Heard this kid's story first hand this weekend on This American Life

Cops were truly engaging in entrapment, and as a result they ruined this kid's life.

Take a listen
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/what-i-did-for-love

[flexnor]

21. 'This American Life' is a glimpse of what NPR once was

great program, superb treat to catch while driving

[WhoIsNumberNone]

7. I hope she's proud of herself

[Systematic Chaos]

13. I'd say what I hope, but it's in no way appropriate for a public forum.

[backscatter712]

14. The words I have to say about her would get hidden in a heartbeat.

[Lochloosa]

22. Fucking Bitch...does that work

[backscatter712]

33. Hey, I'm more than happy to compare that POS cop to a female dog.

Except that would be an insult to the dog...

Personally, I'd call her a hell of a lot worse.

[Agony]

8. FUBAR nt

[spanone]

9. while real crimes are being committed.

[alittlelark]

10. How can the cop look at herself in the mirror?

There is something very wrong in the psyche of someone who can do this.

[backscatter712]

15. Many cops are psychopaths. They sleep just fine.

They think ruining people's lives like this is great sport!

[MagickMuffin]

11. If the flirting went even further then they should be charged with pediphilia

So, perhaps the parents can sue the agency with having relations with a minor.

[blue neen]

12. That's horrible.

What a colossal waste of time, money, and resources...and ruining kids' lives to boot.

There are true drug problems in this country. An 18 year old smoking marijuana isn't one of them.

This money would be better spent treating true addicts for their underlying medical problems. Many addicts have undiagnosed depression and other affective disorders and end up self-medicating.

The Republicans would never agree to doing that though...that would be "socialism" or "entitlements" or any other bullshit word they choose to use to demonize treatments and programs that actually WORK.

[raouldukelives]

16. You'll never read about the undercover cops

getting in and getting to know Wall St execs and dropping lucrative insider tips on them to see if they bite. That would directly harm the money trough.
Some pigs are more equal than others.

[Dawson Leery]

17. Coppers are protecting Wall Street.

They have been bought off and are trained to be ignorant brutes.

[flexnor]

18. I'm down on drugs AND narcs

by narc, i mean 'befriend and betray', i dont mean people who do legit narcotics officer work

a guy that age can be swooned into anything by a pretty face, even if he'd have never drifted into that arena otherwise

the definition of entrapment

it was an education for the kid though, the number of people in this society who'd ruin an innocent person's life for a 'feather in their cap' or a pat on the head

sick

[Swede]

19. This is just so wrong.

Disgustingly perverted justice system.

[Politicalboi]

20. Lets hope they can sue

And they should start with the school that allowed this to go on. They allowed adults to seduce, and trick kids at school. And put them in the black market of buying Marijuana. They may have endangered their lives. What if Justin went into a bad neighborhood to get the weed for the "girl" he really liked, and was an innocent bystander in a drive by? How would that work? What if got beat up and robbed? Would the "cops" take the blame?

[intheflow]

23. I'm amused by the shock I'm reading in this thread.

We had undercover cops in my high school in the late '70s and early '80s. In Massachusetts. Many busts ensued. No action was ever taken against police for entrapment. We learned to not hang with anyone new people who didn't bring their own goodies to a party.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

24. Dumber than the dumbest dumb dumbery

I think pot should be decriminalized but even if you admit for a moment only for the sake of argument that the police should bust commercial dealers of illegaal substances then this fails in its own context.

[zinnisking]

25. These cops have done a great service for our country.

I haven't smoked the pot in over ten years. I just don't like it. But who am I to push my morals on other people?

I hope this is the highlight of their careers. Pathetic.

[Redstate Bluegirl]

26. Pot

Yeah never mind al qaida we got ganja to sniff. Ridiculous!

[Generic Other]

27. Contributing to the delinquency of a minor

I hope she sleeps well at night.

Ruined the kid's life. Groomed him for her own ugly purposes. If I was his mother, I would destroy her career. I would hound her like a bat out of hell. I would appear at every school board meeting and city council meeting and police citizen board until she was collecting unemployment. And I'd still sue her ass.

[hunter]

32. In addition, I'd probably post her picture on every telephone pole in the county.

With the caption "BAD COP"

The sad thing is she's probably won herself a long career with the DEA.

[grahamhgreen]

29. Child abuse.

[unionworks]

30. In the mid 70s

We had them in my high school. Kind of a joke, as at that thime you could buy many varieties of acid, mescaline, acupulco gold (40 bucks a lid in those days) , columbian, thai sticks, hash (blonde and red), hash oil, and just about any thing else you wanted. I believe the school officials were working both ends, they were complicit in letting the stuff in the school and let the cops occasionally bust someone, to keep them off their backs. I no longer indulge, but I still laugh remembering seeing Nixon talking back in 74 with that weird ass burgandy beard he had...

[L0oniX]

31. Good thing banksters and Wallstreet don't smoke or sell weed.