March 25, 2008

To Serve and Protect

Make that, To Entrap and Destroy. Here the cops set up one of their prostitution stings (helping to improve the tone of the neighborhood, as usual) and catch two 93-year-old men who were talked into something, or confused into something, by cops pretending to be prostitutes. The prevalence of stings and other forms of entrapment show that the police are, by and large, agents of injustice. Whatever happened to the friendly local cop on the beat who actually talked to regular people, and had their liking and respect? Gone the way of the rest of the old America, I guess. (via Drudge)