keith_sixteen wrote: » Let's just get rid of the police then completely in that case.
S.L.F. wrote: » The amount of male predators of young men and women in positions of power who have been highlighted in the media is alarming.
end of the road wrote: » and as asked earlier in the thread, why would these 10 random people be happy to go out of their way to pretend to be a child exactly? at least in the police's case they get paid for it and it's part of their job description, but what person would want to go out of their way to pretend to be a child, especially for free? if i'm honest it's actually disturbing that someone would be happy to do that. whatever about it being part of the job and being paid for it.
end of the road wrote: » Chief Constable Simon Bailey realised that it may be better to work with these groups to keep them on side and insure his staff can do their job without trouble. i completely understand his point of view. these so-called "anti paedophile" groupps ultimately care about 1 thing and it's not being anti paedophile.
LionelNashe wrote: » He's hoping Ross Kemp will see the video and ask him to be mates. I had to laugh at his TV-cop-drama-inspired interrogation technique, and also when they asked the guy if he realised that what he had done was wrong, and would he agree not to do it again if they let him go, and then they said "Tough, we're not letting you go." His heart must have broke.
sabat wrote: » It would be extremely easy to destroy someone's life using these vigilantes. What's to stop someone taking your photos off social media, setting up a fake account to chat to adolescents, then using some false pretext to have you at the rendezvous? You'd be announced as a paedophile to the whole world before you could even say wtf, I thought I was meeting Bob for a pint?
gozunda wrote: » He hasnt shown what he has said is correct either ....
end of the road wrote: » these groups aren't needed full stop. the police not being able to do enough doesn't justify these groups existing.
end of the road wrote: » these groups have chosen to get involved in this for the attention.
Neil Issagum wrote: » I’ve often seen comments on YouTube defending them, did not think I would see that here! Shocking really
hatrickpatrick wrote: » The police "not being able" to do enough? One person could easily operate 50 sock puppet Facebook accounts from behind a desk - they were happy to do this against groups like Occupy and Anonymous. They're perfectly capable, they just don't bother.
mada82 wrote: » Is there really such a thing as citizens arrest? Is the video really usable in court? Surely you could argue you were in fear for your life? Any way those Drogheda one were creepy especially that Niall one.
end of the road wrote: » Why would these 10 random people be happy to go out of their way to pretend to be a child exactly? at least in the police's case they get paid for it and it's part of their job description, but what person would want to go out of their way to pretend to be a child, especially for free? if i'm honest it's actually disturbing that someone would be happy to do that. whatever about it being part of the job and being paid for it.
mada82 wrote: » Is there really such a thing as citizens arrest?
Flippyfloppy wrote: » Where is there a drogheda one?
Avatar MIA wrote: » I think there might be in the UK, but nothing specific in the ROI.
Omackeral wrote: » A multitude of reasons -Probably because they are sick to the back teeth of cases involving children being defiled, like most decent folks are. - Perhaps they know of people's children who have been harmed or potentially were going to be harmed. Maybe they themselves were targets as kids. - Possibly because the police aren't doing enough or can't do enough. - Or maybe they just hate sexual predators and they have the actual balls to go confront them and turn them over to the authorities with relevant evidence.
wakka12 wrote: » All fair enough, but why pretend to be children? Why not try to track down actual paedophile groups that are currently abusing children as we speak, and trying to save them? Rather than ensnaring brain dead 50 year olds on the internet who are deluded enough to think a 13 year old girl wants to sleep with them I won't say what they're doing is 'bad' or useless, but they're not the gods gift to society youre making them out to be
Strazdas wrote: » And why not go after drug dealers in the same manner? I would imagine that would be ripe territory for a sting, in fact far easier to set up than one on paedophiles.
BorneTobyWilde wrote: » In Russian there are still anti gay vigil aunties ...
GT_TDI_150 wrote: » Time and resources would be my guess.. 10 'vigilantes are probably happy to do shifts fishing with the fake profiles on their own time without getting paid... now imagine asking cops to do the same... id say theres overtime pay and working hours issues....
BorneTobyWilde wrote: » In Russian there are still anti gay vigil aunties roaming the streets, and not so long ago it was same here. I'm not saying we'll have a paedo Prime Minister anytime soon, but the only defence RTE guy has is that Lady Gaga song '' Baby I Was Born This Way '' Even today in parts of this world we live parents send their children off to be cured of being gay.Maybe RTE guy is wired the way he is because of the make up of his biology or genetics.