Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>  > Entrapment, though, is something I generally feel should be illegal.

> Entrapment already is illegal. However, buying drugs from a drug dealer 
> isn't entrapment.

> Entrapment is when the cop tells you to do something you know would 
> otherwise be illegal, then punishes you for it. Entrapment would be a cop 
> waving you through a red light, then giving you a ticket for going thru a 
> red light.

  A cop buying drugs is not entrapment, but a cop *selling* drugs (in order
to arrest the people who buy them) would be, wouldn't it? Or a cop posing
as a prostitute to arrest people who try to buy her services (at least in
places where that's illegal).

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                                                          - Warp

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