You’ve all seen them….the TV News Investigations that, along with cooperation from law enforcement, lure sex offenders to a home, supposedly to meet up with an underage teen to have sex. The sting catches the offenders dead to rights on camera. Some stand shocked in front of the microphone and feebly attempt to deny why they are there. Others foolishly run, only to be tackled by police and handcuffed.
I happen to approve of these television projects. I know people who have denounced them, saying it’s not quality journalism, but a tawdry play for ratings.
Personally? I love seeing the bad guys get nailed. I love watching them squirm and sweat on camera. I enjoy watching John Mercure of Today’s TMJ 4 pose embarrassing questions and comments to a low-life sex offender who is about ready to crumble into the fetal position.
Dateline NBC has been doing these stings as a regular feature of their newsmagazine, and it’s worked. Many sex offenders have been put away.
But there’s been a twist in Murphy, Texas. The local district attorney has dropped all charges against the men nabbed in a Dateline NBC sting, the first time in the history of the stings a prosecutor hasn’t taken glee in putting away the pedophiles.
His rationale?
He doesn’t like the fact that “outsiders,” as he calls the TV crews, were involved. Somehow, he feels that taints the operation.
Now think about that. Law enforcement does these stings all the time, with or without television crews. I’ve never heard of such a case not holding up in court. The evidence is clear and damning. Yet the man who is supposed to uphold law and order and put away the bad guys…….LET’S THEM GO!
Instead of a district attorney, he sounds like a public defender, the necessary evil of our criminal justice system, the lawyer that defends the scum of the earth, the attorney who goes home and when asked by a spouse at dinner, “what did you do today, dear?” answers back, “I tried to get a rapist off.”
This district attorney needs to be run out of town. Here’s the
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