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I want to throw another situation into the mix just to see what you all think:
Last week I'm driving into St. Louis on a stretch of I44, in between towns, still outside of St. Louis County in a rural area. I see the big orange signs on the side of the road- 2 of them, a few hundred feet apart. At first I thought they were 'mowers ahead' signs or something. The I got close enough to read the first one:
"POLICE HIGHWAY CHECKPOINT AHEAD. 1/2 MILE"
This is on I44 mind you. In midday traffic. W T F...
Then the next sign read:
"DRUG ENFORCEMENT DOGS ARE IN USE. BE PREPARED TO STOP"
And I'm thinking dear lord WTF is this about. Seriously, they are stopping traffic on THE HIGHWAY? How long is this gonna take?
This was on a windy part of the highway so you could not see 1/2 mile ahead. But conveniently a few hundred feet after that last sign was an exit off to some country road. As I passed, I noted two police cars sitting slightly out of view down the road at the exit.
1/2 mile went by, nothing there. No checkpoint.
You see now what was going on here obviously.
I don't know what the word for that style of 'law enforcement' is, or if there is one... but the term 'entrapment' comes to mine.
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