If the police ad did not exist, some of them might not be soliciting anyone. You don’t know what would have happened.
This is essentially creating a psychological test to try and predict what someone would have done. Then dragnetting everyone that failed their test in an imaginary situation.
Bad legal precedent and similar to how the FBI creates terrorists by planting agents to convince idiots online to carry out imaginary attacks. Many of them would not have done anything without talking to that particular FBI agent.
With technology, you’ll start seeing this concept deployed more often and the possibilities for diminished freedom are terrifying
Absolute nonsense! The existence of the police or their ad is not the reason they went searching for young hookers. How about this? If they never went searching for underage hookers, nothing would have happened to them regardless of what the police did.
You don’t know what would have happened.
No, but we know what did happen. OK, innocent until found guilty, but if they are guilty, it's because of their own actions, not because of anything the police did.