This isn't entrapment. I'll use prostitution as an example: entrapment would be an undercover cop going up to a prostitute and hiring them only to arrest them after they agreed or an undercover cop going up to random people and soliciting sex for money only to arrest anyone who bites, THIS, however, is more like an undercover officer hanging around a known prostitute hot spot and waiting to see if anyone comes up to them and tries to "buy their services".
Basically, if a cop initiates contact then it's entrapment, if the other party does then it's not. Cops just walking around and then arresting people who stare at them would NOT meet the legal definition of entrapment, although it would be (in the US at least) a MASSIVE violation of their rights for other more obvious reasons.
If I dress up like a bear, and then go roaming into the bear-hunting forest, and when the inevitable shot comes - me trying to charge the shooter with attempted murder.. Never, ever, ever would fly for obvious reasons.
I get what you're saying about the law - but it is still entrapment when the cops do it. The law doesn't think so, as if the law was consistent 9/10ths of the laws wouldn't be there, and then where would their cash cow come from?
Entrapment is a LEGAL term with over 120 years of precedent, you can't just say everything you want to be entrapment is entrapment, that's not how the law works. Entrapment specifically requires police to instigate someone to commit illegal activity, if your definition were correct then literally EVERY SINGLE sting operation would be illegal.
So trust the experts?
Lots of idiocy is long running..
Where is the difference?
Police dress up like something they aren't.
I dress up as something I am not.
Police go where they can be confused with something else.
I go where I can be confused with something else.
They charge the person that fell for their ruse.
I try and charge the person that fell for the ruse.
The only difference is that its "legal" when they do it, and it shouldn't take anyone(That isn't a boot licking, NPC) to understand that is, was and never can be the basis for a legitimate law.
Is entrapment not illegal in the UK?
This isn't entrapment. I'll use prostitution as an example: entrapment would be an undercover cop going up to a prostitute and hiring them only to arrest them after they agreed or an undercover cop going up to random people and soliciting sex for money only to arrest anyone who bites, THIS, however, is more like an undercover officer hanging around a known prostitute hot spot and waiting to see if anyone comes up to them and tries to "buy their services".
Basically, if a cop initiates contact then it's entrapment, if the other party does then it's not. Cops just walking around and then arresting people who stare at them would NOT meet the legal definition of entrapment, although it would be (in the US at least) a MASSIVE violation of their rights for other more obvious reasons.
Counter point...
If I dress up like a bear, and then go roaming into the bear-hunting forest, and when the inevitable shot comes - me trying to charge the shooter with attempted murder.. Never, ever, ever would fly for obvious reasons.
I get what you're saying about the law - but it is still entrapment when the cops do it. The law doesn't think so, as if the law was consistent 9/10ths of the laws wouldn't be there, and then where would their cash cow come from?
Entrapment is a LEGAL term with over 120 years of precedent, you can't just say everything you want to be entrapment is entrapment, that's not how the law works. Entrapment specifically requires police to instigate someone to commit illegal activity, if your definition were correct then literally EVERY SINGLE sting operation would be illegal.
So trust the experts? Lots of idiocy is long running..
Where is the difference?
Police dress up like something they aren't. I dress up as something I am not.
Police go where they can be confused with something else. I go where I can be confused with something else.
They charge the person that fell for their ruse. I try and charge the person that fell for the ruse.
The only difference is that its "legal" when they do it, and it shouldn't take anyone(That isn't a boot licking, NPC) to understand that is, was and never can be the basis for a legitimate law.
something something they're "subjects" not "citizens"