Originally posted by LePaul
I guess you misread the last paragraph of the article you posted....in short, they are upset that THEIR town and neighborhoods were used as bait to lure in these predators. That's their beef.
No LePaul, I've read it. I've also heard the interviews on the local news. The Mayor and a few people think Murphy was 100% free of pedophiles and always would have been if not for Dateline coming to town. They want the chief of police fired for not disclosing to everyone that there was a sting.
Now I'm no law enforcement genius, but if you take out a full page ad in the paper or go door to door telling everyone you are going to be secretly arresting pedophiles at a certain house on a certain day, you won't catch many.
If I was a pedophile and I saw a bunch of pedophiles being arrested in a certain house in a certain town, I'd probably avoid that town like the plague.
They are MUCH safer today than they were before the sting. Those griping about it are idiots. The worst of the worst are off the streets, some of them permanently.