Good comment left over at Rogier van Bakel’s place on the practice of sending attractive undercover cops into high schools to lure lonely teenagers into drug distribution:

Only to be expected, really.

Cops are , at bottom, public employees, which means bureacrats. And bureacrats, since they produce nothing, desire proof of “productivity” above all things. And what is ‘productivity’ for cops? Numbers of arrests.

And don’t forget, there is now huge competition for the available crooks! FBI, DEA, state cops , local cops, ATF, DHS, border patrol, Fish and Game, the PTA playground patrols are slated to get tanks and helicopters soon … so inevitably the pressure is on to find new sources of criminals, the indispensable raw material of the law enforcement industry. And if creating a few is what’s needed, hey, you can’t ask for more budget money if you can’t “prove” there’s a huge “problem.” Numbers, my boy, it’s all in the numbers!

Enticement? That’s nothing. Wait until, like Stalin’s KGB, they start grabbing people at random to make up the month’s quota.

I think we’re already there.

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