Vigilante Justice...

I understand your point of view Rroff, but in this show he makes in explicably clear that he is underage. I can't see how then proceeding to talk to/agree to meet/send naked photos could do anything other than smear them, and rightly so?
 
I'm not really talking about the show specifically but the wider bit of your question:

"What are your thoughts on this kind of technique and could the public taking the law into their own hands in this way ever be successful? "

Its frightening what could happen without proper regulation.
 
Indeed, as I've said I think there is a risk that people who don't hack the same level of control and 'professionalism' could follow suit in a more violent way.
 
I read of police doing this in the US, but they'd pose as someone of legal age and then try to change their age last minute. 'oh by the way I know I said I was 18 but I'm actually 17 in a few days.. is that ok?'

So where do we draw the line? Surely at this point it is quite clearly police trying to provoke innocent men into committing a crime they otherwise might not have had anything to do with.

Unrelated, but a similar tactic to US snipers planting bits of IED's in kill zones and anyone who picks it up and tries to take it must be Taliban. Interesting.
 
I definitely don't think it's acceptable to change the age at the last minute. By saying that they are 13 or whatever straight away, the person on the other end should immediately stop the conversation.
 
Just watched this.

Obviously we all know what's involved in the type of conversations to catch these people but christ, I found it hard to listen to what was being said in some of the text messages that were going back and forward.

I've got a new found respect for my girlfriends dad that did the computer forensics side of this until last year when he retired.

Have to admit I'm one of the people that will gladly watch these people burn and, after watching, I agree that I think they're hanging themselves more than anything else.
 
Well there can be another department of law enforcement created or sub department of the police to deal with these issues.

As we've seen public dealing with it can go horrendously wrong which just defeats the purpose of it as more crimes are committed rather than reduced.
 
Whilst his actions are a bit brash he is all in all doing the socially right thing by trying to identify and help prosecute these individuals.

What i can never understand is why the police dont commit 1-2 trained officers to work with a civilian volunteer group. Lets say 7-8 individuals working with 2 trained officers to gather the information and build a case correctly without jeopardizing anyone in the process.

Properly train the civilian element to gather information correctly and concisely under the close watch of a few trained officers then pass the dossiers on to get them lifted and charged. a lot lower cost than having an entire police element doing it
 
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