Sheriff Will Pay You $100 to Wear a Wire and Ask People to Sell You Drugs

[Snoopster]

Stupid silver-bullet strategies to win the war on drugs are as common as the reckless zealots who dream them up, but rarely does one find an example so deeply absurd and irresponsible as this.
Sheriff Price believes there are still many dealers on the streets. He is now asking for the public's help to catch them.

"Basically what we need from the public to help combat this, is we need some informants. Without community involvement, there is no way we can combat these drugs. We have to have community involvement," said Sheriff Price.

The sheriff will pay people up to $100 to tell him who is dealing drugs and then possibly help with undercover work.

"If you know someone that sells drugs and you feel like you can put a stop to it by wearing a wire, at least come in. It doesn't cost you anything to come in and talk to us and we'll explain the process to you," said Sheriff Price. [WKYT.com]

It’s fun and easy! Just use common sense. If someone tries to blow your head off, duck. If they set your house on fire, stop, drop and roll. After all, if teams of highly-trained, heavily-armed narco-cops can pull off these kinds of operations, what's your excuse? Certainly, you aren't afraid of a few ill-tempered drug dealers.

"Don't let people scare you. A lot of people are afraid they will get burnt out or beat up. I've done this for 25 years and got nobody hurt yet," said Sheriff Price.

Really, one can scarcely find words to describe the sickening irony of police suddenly claiming that drug enforcement is so safe a civilian could do it.

Frightened police officers routinely panic and unload their weapons on innocent people and pets when entering the homes of drug suspects. When that happens, we're reminded by them that this work is dangerous, that drug dealers are bloodthirsty killers, and that it's necessary we arm our police to the teeth and forgive any fatal errors they may make with their machine guns, because failing to do so could result police being shot at or bitten by dogs when they smash down people's doors looking for drugs.

Meanwhile, police want to pay random people $100 each to approach these same deadly criminals with no training or protective gear? The whole thing just makes a mockery of everything police ever said about the dangers of drug enforcement, and yet it does so for the purpose of persuading naive people to do something that really is incredibly risky. Drug informants are routinely identified and targeted for harassment and even death. The murder of Rachel Hoffman, who was arrested for marijuana and agreed to wear a wire, is a well-known example, but Google finds many more.

The whole idea is just idiotic on its face, and in ways that I would have thought obvious. The drug war isn't some action comedy on afternoon cable, and when you start screwing around with slippery BS like this, anything and everything could go horribly wrong. The fact that the war on drugs creates a temptation to enforce the law this way is a good example of why we'd be better off without it.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2011/dec/13/sheriff_will_pay_you_100_wear_wi

 

[Bullfrog44]

lol, this is great. People need money for shopping you know.

 

[Brother Bear]

Anyone remember that thread where the girl wore a wire and bought drugs for cops. She went missing and was later found dead.

 

[Classy@Home]

(Great minds BB)
This is probably the prick that had a young lady do a drug buy and got her killed...

Pinched a girl on a dubious possession charge - offered to lessen charges if she co-operated, and make a phony buy while wired. The leo lost them, found girl days later, dead, minus the $$$.

This asshole will get his - big time. Sadly, a civilian will get hurt or killed first - another statistic in the war on "certain drugs" - but the leo will drown his sorrows with a bottle, and smack his 2nd wife around to feel better...

The only good thing - lots of leo die sad, lonely, divorced, broke, kids not talking to them, ex-wives taking even their pensions, and quite a few stick their guns into their own mouths and kill one last piece of shit with it...

Oh, happy times...

 

[COOKIE MONSTER]

I'd take the $100 dollars and ask every cop in town to hook me up...

 

[Phillthy]

Anyone remember that thread where the girl wore a wire and bought drugs for cops. She went missing and was later found dead.

i do. this sheriff has his head in his ass. i hope he gets sued personally when the first snitch gets their ass beat.

 

[longearedfriend]

it's fun and easy

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I'd take the $100 dollars and ask every cop in town to hook me up...

You'd prolly catch more than few of em.

 

[Warped1]

So they're putting $100 price tag on a life now?

 

[bobcat1963]

I would rather pay people $100.00 a pop to kick me in the face.

 

[Warped1]

I wouldn't kick you for less than $500

 

[Classy@Home]

I would - but just 'cause yer a friend...

 

[Iron_Lion]

Asking strangers to sell me drugs is one of my favorite things to do!

 

[longearedfriend]

^^

that could seriously be true, but I know it's not in this case

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

made me laugh

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

another good one

another good one

I wouldn't kick you for less than $500

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Warped1 again.

 

[moresntoil]

well i have known some cocaine/crack dealers that i would love to see locked up reguardless of how they do it, being a recovering coke addict. theyed take your last 5bucks that you where gona feed your kid with, knowing you cant control you addiction.

sounds like the pig is doing the same thing, praying on those who need money. man.. if i turn this guy in then i can go buy some shit from this other guy....hhmmm?

but to bust a pot dealer is just wrong, we should all have good bud at our local med shop. I know alot of illeagle pot dealers that are good people, that would love to join the med scene but cant cuz of their state.

for me I guess i depends on who hes goin after

 

[schwilly]

Anybody willing to wear a wire for a drug rap deserves to get shanked.

Thanks for indirectly getting those snitches off the street, sheriff!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Good post, moresntoil. Hell yeah, many growers pay no taxes because they can't.

On the other hand, every thousand dollars worth of weed they sell generates $680 to the economy.

 

[b00m]

Wow taking entrapment to a whole new level
Fracking straight up bullshit