DISGUSTING! How dare the police do this...UPDATE #70!!!

[Dznypal]

I dont see where the police did anything out of the ordinary.

my DS is a police officer when he was 18 and a police aide they officers were setting up a drug bust and needed someone who could pass as 15 so they set my DS with different clothes and planted him on the street corner waiting for the deal--my DS was closely watched from all angles with officers in unmarked cars and street clothes!! He said it was pretty interesting Im so proud of him

these officers where just doing theyre job--they could have been tipped off and thats why they handled it the way they did

how would it have looked if the police caught the kids and just gave them a slap on the wrist and something really bad happened because these kids werent put in theyre place--it may sound far fetched but it could happen--maybe not today but sometime down the way.

 

[DawnCt1]

Okay.

Maybe this will get some flame but so be it.

Yeah, I kind of see this as entrapment as I remember as a young lad at this age, when it came to attractive girls, my brain wasn't the organ that did the thinking a lot of times.

With that being said, drugs have no place in any schools and I for one am glad to see that the police are working to get the drugs out of the school.

When my daughter gets to be of school age, it would not bother me in the least to see police have drug dogs sniffing lockers on a daily basis. In fact, I hope this is the case.

I hope these young kids don't get slammed into jail as I don't think this is always the best answer all of the time, but they need to be punished accordingly and taught that drugs will not be tolerated.

My 2 cents.

I agree with you and I think that there does need to be continued vigilance and enforcement. There is no place for drugs in school or any where else. I do recall a school in one of the southern states however where the police came in with a SWAT team, dogs and had guns trained on the students lying on the floor.....and found nothing. That's a bit heavy handed. My concern is, were some of these kids, boys, who never had a pretty girl glance twice at them and were enticed into commiting a crime. While we are at it, lets not just assume that it is boys that deal drugs and break the law. It seems that girls were not targeted at all for drug procurement. If they were, where is the hot dude? I would guess if there was a hot dude, we would see a few girls in the line up as well.

 

[drakethib]

I agree with you and I think that there does need to be continued vigilance and enforcement. There is no place for drugs in school or any where else. I do recall a school in one of the southern states however where the police came in with a SWAT team, dogs and had guns trained on the students lying on the floor.....and found nothing. That's a bit heavy handed. My concern is, were some of these kids, boys, who never had a pretty girl glance twice at them and were enticed into commiting a crime. While we are at it, lets not just assume that it is boys that deal drugs and break the law. It seems that girls were targeted at all for drug procurement. If they were, where is the hot dude? I would guess if there was a hot dude, we would see a few girls in the line up as well.

Agree 100%

Regarding SWAT with guns drawn on students, if that would happen to my daughter, the PD that did this, I can assure you there would be hell to pay. There is a point of crossing the line.

 

[Philadisney]

i can't believe people are protesting this. especially the whole though "oh, she was a pretty girl, that makes it unfair. everyone knows teenage boys are easily bewitched by pretty girls and can't think for themselves." this part of the article ticked me off: "All the kids know where to get a hold of marijuana, whether they are doing it or not." Ummmmm...throughout my 4 years of high school i wouldn't have had the slightest idea where to get any sort of drug. how lame that they are trying to make it sound like it was 'ok' and a 'normal kid thing' that these students were involved in this.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

I don't have a problem with getting drugs out of school.
I have a problem with the way they did this.
First off the "my mother died and I need the drugs to kill the pain" thing makes me want to puke.
Does anyone know for sure that maybe one of these kids didn't just feel really bad for her? Did something he might not have done because he felt sorry for her?
Interesting there wasn't a single girl busted. She went after the boys.
Then instead of the headline grabbing big bust each kid should have been brought in quietly. Tell us who sold YOU the drugs and we go easy...
They should have done real police work and went up the chain... but that might have been hard work or dangerous.
She should have went in there playing party girl and see who approached HER as opposed to manipulating.
What they did is useless, will not decrease drug use in the school and was just to grab headlines.
I thought that set up picture of the 4 "adult" defendants was very telling. Do you think they usually move suspects like that? Or was that a setup for the press?
They keep talking about the dollar value of the marijuna but not the amount. Normally they always say "3 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $3600.00 dollars was seized".
You have to wonder why
This whole thing was a publicity stunt and nothing else.

 

[DawnCt1]

i can't believe people are protesting this. especially the whole though "oh, she was a pretty girl, that makes it unfair. everyone knows teenage boys are easily bewitched by pretty girls and can't think for themselves." this part of the article ticked me off: "All the kids know where to get a hold of marijuana, whether they are doing it or not." Ummmmm...throughout my 4 years of high school i wouldn't have had the slightest idea where to get any sort of drug. how lame that they are trying to make it sound like it was 'ok' and a 'normal kid thing' that these students were involved in this.

Through out my high school years I too wouldn't have had a clue wher to get drugs but I have no doubt that if I made a serious effort, I could have found out and that was back in the 60's. This wasn't a "pretty girl", this was a mature woman who appeared to be a pretty girl and what I am wondering, were these boys that would have never been involved in drug procurement if they hadn't been seduced on some level. That doesn't make them right, it makes them stupid, but to be facing felony charges for gross stupidity seems extreme. And what about the girls? Do girls not sell drugs? What happened to Title Nine?

 

[amid chaos]

Through out my high school years I too wouldn't have had a clue wher to get drugs but I have no doubt that if I made a serious effort, I could have found out and that was back in the 60's. This wasn't a "pretty girl", this was a mature woman who appeared to be a pretty girl and what I am wondering, were these boys that would have never been involved in drug procurement if they hadn't been seduced on some level. That doesn't make them right, it makes them stupid, but to be facing felony charges for gross stupidity seems extreme. And what about the girls? Do girls not sell drugs? What happened to Title Nine?

There is one 14 year old girl involved.

 

[drakethib]

i can't believe people are protesting this. especially the whole though "oh, she was a pretty girl, that makes it unfair. everyone knows teenage boys are easily bewitched by pretty girls and can't think for themselves." this part of the article ticked me off: "All the kids know where to get a hold of marijuana, whether they are doing it or not." Ummmmm...throughout my 4 years of high school i wouldn't have had the slightest idea where to get any sort of drug. how lame that they are trying to make it sound like it was 'ok' and a 'normal kid thing' that these students were involved in this.

I am not protesting this in anyway. Do I think there is form of entrapment? Heck yes.

Am I glad they got the drugs out of the school. Damn Skippy.

Do I want a bunch of teenagers who were thinking with something other then their brain thrown in jail and having a record for the rest of their life. No. Punishment yes, but having their lives ruined no.

And let me say for the record, I don't have the facts of this story, just what I read. To me it was a bunch of boys trying to win the heart (and a whole lot more) from the pretty girl on campus.

Geeze for that matter, send a good looking woman into a singles bar (or heck a church social for that matter) in Anytown, USA, using the exact same story that she was telling these young boys and see what happens.

I am willing to bet if the PD had sent in less then what someone would call attractive young lady with bad breath, bad hair, and bad odor, they wouldn't have been able to have a "big bust" like they say they have.

With that being said, if they would have found this to be a major drug ring, these kids terrorizing other kids, and being violent, I would say lock them up and throw away the key.

I am not sure when you were in high school, drugs were hard to find, but when I was in, drugs were just as easy to find as a candy bar. The "rich" schools where many of my friends went were worse since they had access to their parents money.

And quite honesty, seeing the youth of today, I don't think the situation has gotten better since then.

I for one am not knocking the cops for doing their jobs and I am glad to see them getting the drugs out of school, but I sure would rather see them arresting major dealers and find $360,000 worth of drugs rather then some young kids. But I am not heart broken to see them get these drugs out of the schools either. Maybe the next kid will think twice when someone offers him or her drugs.

BTW, please take no offense to what I am saying. I am just stating MHO.

 

[DawnCt1]

There is one 14 year old girl involved.

Was she the "incidental girl" or do we now have proof that boys are 9 times as bad as girls.

 

[amid chaos]

Was she the "incidental girl" or do we now have proof that boys are 9 times as bad as girls.

She was the only girl involved and rounded up Friday morning with the 8 boys.

 

[C.Ann]

You know, I can't even read this thread anymore, some of these responses are so ridiculous.

It's not rocket science.

Drugs are illegal, Everyone knows that. If you get caught with them, you will be arrested and charged with a crime. If you do not want that to happen, then don't get caught with drugs. And I don't care if it's $10 worth of pot or $10,000 worht of pot.

It's illegal.

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I SOOOOOOOO agree with you!

 

[lillygator]

Dawn and Alex - are you under the impression that these boys only did this for the planted cop and for no one else? and since a pretty girl asked them to get her some they turned to a "life leading to crime"? I only ask since repeated responses from you seem to lean that way and I just want to clarify that is where you are coming from.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

Considering the show 21 Jump Street was on TV in the 1980's - I don't think the concept of undercover police at work in High School's is a novel idea??????

or did somebody already say that? I didn't bother to read the thread.

 

[dcentity2000]

I don't get many of the responses in this thread.

Illegal drugs are illegal for a reason. Think about it - if they were safe enough to sell to the public, I bet you the Government would start it off with heavy tax.

Governments like tax.

One other thing - these kids were pedalling these illegal drugs to other students. That's horrific. Hard drugs can kill you and the remainder can make you turn schizophrenic. By selling these drugs they may have put the health of their friends seriously at risk - we don't even know the extent of the damage yet, as many drugs take years to activate, as so to speak.

I digress. My point is - there is no excuse for this..



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[drakethib]

Dawn and Alex - are you under the impression that these boys only did this for the planted cop and for no one else? and since a pretty girl asked them to get her some they turned to a "life leading to crime"? I only ask since repeated responses from you seem to lean that way and I just want to clarify that is where you are coming from.

You didn't ask me but here is my response.

While I dont think these young men were 100% innocent, having a pretty girl ask ing for help getting something probably encouraged them to do things they MAY not have done otherwise.

Not saying it should be excused, but I guess because I am a guy I understand this a lot more then women may.

Again, I am not saying that they should not be punished, I just don't want to see them thrown in a jail cell as such a young age.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

Dawn and Alex - are you under the impression that these boys only did this for the planted cop and for no one else? and since a pretty girl asked them to get her some they turned to a "life leading to crime"? I only ask since repeated responses from you seem to lean that way and I just want to clarify that is where you are coming from.

It's certianly possible they did. Either way it's obvious these are not big time pushers.
As for all the reponses about "it's a crime" I'll remember that next time I am driving down the highway. Since there is no difference between going 61 in a 60 zone or a 120 may as well get where I am going quicker!
Hasn't anyone heard the saying the punishment should fit the crime?
The one question I haven't seen addressed by everyone that thinks the police did such a great job here is why the heck didn't they go after the real dealers?

 

[C.Ann]

The one question I haven't seen addressed by everyone that thinks the police did such a great job here is why the heck didn't they go after the real dealers?

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And I would ask you - how do you know that they aren't going to? Do you think if they had some sort of "plan" they would announce it to the news media?

A few years back there was a heavy duty drug dealer in my sister-in-law's neighborhood.. The comings and goings all hours of the night; strange vehicles; strange people - it was very obvious what was going on.. HUNDREDS of calls were made to the police department about these activities and people were enraged that nothing was "being done".. Well something was being done - behind the scenes.. They just didn't announce it on the six o'clock news until after the fact.. Did it not occur to you that the officials might actually want to make it appear that "this" is the end of it?

I don't believe for one minute that they planted this female cop in a high school for the sole purpose of catching 9 very stupid teenagers.. You have repeatedly said that people need to "wait to see how it plays out".. Maybe you should do the same..

 

[momof2inPA]

I'm with Dawn and Alex. The fact that there was only one girl arrested indicates the cop used her hotness and sob story to convince these guys to get her the goods. I feel sorry for them. This chance meeting with one chick could change their whole lives.

 

[momrek06]

You know, I can't even read this thread anymore, some of these responses are so ridiculous.

It's not rocket science.

Drugs are illegal, Everyone knows that. If you get caught with them, you will be arrested and charged with a crime. If you do not want that to happen, then don't get caught with drugs. And I don't care if it's $10 worth of pot or $10,000 worht of pot.

It's illegal.

DISNEY DOLL WELL SAID WELL SAID

I am from Boston and I saw this on the News yesterday and all I can really say is these kids were all filmed as they were being handcuffed and lead away and NONE of them NONE seemed the least bit remorseful.

PEOPLE: NEWS FLASH: DRUGS ARE ILLEGAL...PERIOD. The School Administration or Police in Falmouth OBVIOUSLY felt there was a NEED to plant the "hot babe" in the school....BINGO, it worked. BUSTED!

 

[~queenie~]

I'm with Dawn and Alex. The fact that there was only one girl arrested indicates the cop used her hotness and sob story to convince these guys to get her the goods. I feel sorry for them.

While I get that you think the police officer was a woman made a difference in what these boys did, do you really believe they have never gotten drugs for anyone else? She just happened to go to these boys and they all sold her drug, but it as their 1st time doing it?