There is no such website as “young hookers R us”.
These were ads placed in classifieds and dating sites where someone looking for other things can also see them.
Just like using a police woman as bait in the street to convince men to pay her. If she did not exist, nobody would be talking to her. They are making a prediction by creating a fantasy situation they assume proves what someone would have done later.
This is all very psuedo-scientific and legally dubious
What does that prove?
These were ads placed in classifieds and dating sites where someone looking for other things can also see them.
People looking for "something else" aren't going to answer ads from underage hookers.
Just like using a police woman as bait in the street to convince men to pay her. If she did not exist, nobody would be talking to her.
No, they would be going after someone else. And if they turned out to be sickos who intended to do harm, then that someone else would be saved by the vice squad.
That is not assuming they would commit a violent crime. They're being busted for what they did, solicitation, not for what they might have done.
I know, for what they allegedly did. Innocent until proven guilty. And if you want to make the case that the cops aren't always telling the truth (see Baltimore), you'll get no argument from me. That's why we have trial dates, and they'll get theirs.
They are making a prediction by creating a fantasy situation they assume proves what someone would have done later.
If a guy solicits an under cover cop, no assumptions are necessary. We know what he would have done, because he did.
This is all very psuedo-scientific and legally dubious
That the culprit solicited sex from what he though was a minor but turned out to be a cop is very scientific and legal.
And why are you defending someone who may have made the choice to make human trafficking profitable? That's what you're doing whether you see it that way or not.