Yahoo: ‘RCMP does not condone this activity,’ say police to creep catchers
Surrey RCMP are describing efforts by citizen-led groups to ‘out’ online child sexual predators as getting in the way of legitimate police work.
“The RCMP does not condone this activity, nor do we recommend the activity. We believe it only increases the risk to the public,” said Insp. Tyler Svendson to CBC News, adding that he does not believe any successful charge has come due to efforts from groups like Creep Catcher.
Creep Catcher’s members pose as underage girls online with the aim of trapping men who are trying to hook-up with the girls for sex. After sharing some messages, they arrange to meet, often in public locations like parking lots.
Video recordings of the ensuing confrontations, along with the prior text messages, are then posted online in order to shame the men. MORE
Was kinda hoping they’d confront the creeps and then beat them senseless with a sledge hammer.
The Canadian voters elected a creep Prime Minister, EH
” C, eh, N, eh, D, eh…”
I get the good intentions and all but can’t get past the casual conversation when asked, “so what do you like to do in your free time?”
“I like to pretend that I am a little girl and go online and get grown men to hit on me. Then I meet with them and video tape them. It’s a blast!”
The government doesn’t like it because the wrong powerful person might be caught in a privately arranged sting, and then his crime cannot be properly covered up by authorities. So a powerful perv has to resign and go to jail, instead of remaining in power and beholden to the puppetmasters who hid his crime.
Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls
With bad intent
Snot running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run
Yup. It’s bad enough that the effort would make the cops look bad enough. But to have a politician or connected celeb get outed by citizens can’t easily be covered up. if at all.
@Thirdtwin, unfortunately maybe that’s what the authorities were fighting against when they said, “often the group just ends up duplicating work police are already doing, which can slow down RCMP investigations.”
Most of the RCMP officers are just worried about being caught by the citizens group.
HELLO! Canada, you have my blessing, and that’s all that matters! Open season on creeps.
I bet that most of the citizens who are a part of this were either abused, or love someone who has been abused, so that remark above about them being ‘weird’ for posing as girls to catch predators is very unneeded.