• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    they do this really often with drugs, it’s a really trivial way to get arrests, it’s a bit weird that they’re doing it for prostitution, I guess its probably related to the funny anti trans pastor existing, considering they probably live in a highly conservative area, so maybe police just kinda do this shit when bored?

    oh, i guess it could be maybe for human/sex trafficking.

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      4 months ago

      I have a very formative memory of watching Cops, and in the (had to have been mid-90s episode), the cops were doing an undercover sting. In that they were pretending to be dealers hanging out on a corner, literally selling dime bags of weed to just regular people and then busting them around the corner.

      Even as a kid, I was disgusted. I could not believe that they not only had nothing better to do, but thought this would be a “badass operation” to put on national TV.

      I was s child and I immediately thought of several better ways of spending their time… I mean shit, swap out weed for heroin.

      Still stupid, still fucked up, but at least it’s heroin? I don’t know… That shit changed me.