Comments on: Cops Use Facebook To Bust Post-Prom Party

N.J. Police Infiltrate Social Networking Site, Learned Teens Planned To Provide Booze And Pot

[bigmo47]

The police feel too free online to hide their identities - even when asked if they're police. I understand that they have caught many, many pedophiles this way - but when asked in person if they are cops they MUST (by law) reveal that they are or it's considered entrapment. Online, they don't.
Posted by jennifer-marie at 12:55 PM : May 15, 2009

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This is a myth, A cop does nothave to identify themselves as a cop if they are working undercover (in person or online). If that were the case, No undercover investigation would be successul and many cops would probably have been killed.

[jennifer-marie]

"Police created fake identities to enter the social networking site"

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Hmmm ... I think the very first thing that needs to be done Monday morning is update the entrapment laws. The police feel too free online to hide their identities - even when asked if they're police. I understand that they have caught many, many pedophiles this way - but when asked in person if they are cops they MUST (by law) reveal that they are or it's considered entrapment. Online, they don't.

[rrozsa]

I lost numerous high school classmates (several were killed and at least one permanently brain-damaged and confined to a wheelchair), and just a couple of years ago my son lost three of his friends during his high school years, due to these types of parties. Kids just don't think about consequences under normal situations, let alone when drunk or stoned. I'm in favor of anything that can be done to help prevent these sorts of tragedies. That's it -- off my soapbox now.

[rrozsa]

I hate to be the one to point this out, but every year, the numbers of alcohol traffic fatalities dramatically increases on prom night, due to after-prom parties. Alcohol, combined with experienced drivers, especially when you have several kids in one car, "showing off" or distracted at best, is a terribly dangerous combination. I for one am glad they are cracking down on some of these events. If you don't have a problem with your kids being drunk and/or stoned, at least have them do it at home rather than on the road, in the wee hours of the morning when they are more likely to kill themselves and others.

[dnamj]

Hm. Probably better to avoid announcing criminal behavior (no matter how stupid the laws) on a public forum.

[Hermit1948]

Doesn't law enforcement have anything better to do? Why were they looking at Facebook in the first place? This is disturbing. 1984 disturbing.

[bobnjersey]

[law enforcement today has the technology to assist them in ways that weren't available 10 years ago. i, for one, am glad they busted this party before it happened. i don't want to be on the road with a bunch of boozed up, stoned kids. ]
[Posted by whatsup49 at 9:24 AM : May 15, 2009 ]

law enforcement now have wirelss day/night cameras that they want to place in everyone's home ... just to make sure everyone's compliant w/ the current law.

are you ok with them installing them in all corners of your home ... they're just using the technology that they didn't have 10 years ago ... and nobody wants to live next to someone who may not be completely compliant?

[scoobydob]

briannorwood, billpl-2009, and anyone else who chooses to use degrading terms to describe cops, what will you be calling them when someone breaks into your house, or harms your family, steals your car, etc.? if you're educated, please use that education to choose other words, unless of course, you want everyone to believe you're ignorant.

law enforcement today has the technology to assist them in ways that weren't available 10 years ago. i, for one, am glad they busted this party before it happened. i don't want to be on the road with a bunch of boozed up, stoned kids.
Posted by whatsup49 at 9:24 AM : May 15, 2009

Yeah you don't want to run into them it's hard enough to deal with when drunk and stoned on your scripts already!

[DaVicar5]

Kidz iz so stoopid nowadays.

[whatsup49]

briannorwood, billpl-2009, and anyone else who chooses to use degrading terms to describe cops, what will you be calling them when someone breaks into your house, or harms your family, steals your car, etc.? if you're educated, please use that education to choose other words, unless of course, you want everyone to believe you're ignorant.

law enforcement today has the technology to assist them in ways that weren't available 10 years ago. i, for one, am glad they busted this party before it happened. i don't want to be on the road with a bunch of boozed up, stoned kids.