Catch a Predator

[hajario]

@joebuck20

There were quite a few who tried to bolt as soon as they saw Hansen. The cops (and cameras) would always run after them.

There was one where he saw Hansen and just turned around, calmly walked outside and keeled down with his hands up.

Despite their strong compulsion, they all knew what they were trying to do was wrong or at least that society viewed them that way. There was a man who posted her that admitted to having sexual attraction to children. It couldn’t be helped. So what did he do? Made sure to never look at a website that would trigger his feelings. He didn’t go to places where there would be lots of kids. He made sure that he was never alone in a room with a child under any circumstances. He knew he was cursed with wrong feelings but he took personal responsibility.

[Wesley_Clark]

@asahi

They’re all dangerous. Someone who’s so obsessed to have sex with an underage girl that they’re willing to presumably block out all kinds of warning signs that tell them ‘This is nutty as fuck’ as they’re chatting and driving to the home of a complete stranger to, you know, attempt sex inside said stranger’s home with a 14-year-old…that’s a person in need of a head examination. They do this knowing that there’s at least a chance of an encounter with an enraged pistol-waving father, or a swarm of officers. And yet their obsession overrides all sense. It’s not a stretch to assume that a certain subset of this population would take it a step further and do real harm to a child, be it abduction or worse.

Yeah, they’re all dangerous. I’m not denying that.

But sex crimes are rampant and rarely get reported. I feel shows like this offer a false sense of security by picking the low hanging fruit, and then presenting that as if it is stopping sex crimes. Taking down the dumbest and most clueless sex offenders won’t stop the smart ones.

The truly dangerous ones, again, are the smart ones. The ones that work their way into positions of power and influence and then victimize dozens or hundreds of people. People like Bill Cosby, Jimmy Savile, etc.

[DesertDog]

@Joey_P

I actually thought about including the booze and condoms into that line.
For me, the condoms was always what sealed the deal. They don’t even have plausible deniability at this point. I remember a lot of those guys would tell Chris they were actually going to try and talk this girl out of what she thought he was coming here to do. That all goes out the window when you have condoms that you clearly bought a half hour ago in a shopping bag with some beer.

Oh, they just brought the condoms as part of the show-and-tell about what to look out for. “If you see a guy wearing one like this, run.”