Comments on: Is this the end of ‘To Catch a Predator?’

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:29:51 +0000

If you guys think that this show is deterring people from acting on their sicknesses, then look up local sex offenders in your area. You would be surprised to learn the number is increasing dramatically. This show is for your entertainment. Pure and simple. I must be a pedophile because I think this show is sick. Lock me up and throw away the key. Maybe when you guys are done carrying around your “im better than thou” torches, you will consider that this behavior needs to be addressed at it’s root, and we can find plausible ways to correct a very dangerous behavior.

By: Mark Brownlee

Mark Brownlee — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:02:16 +0000

I do not think this show should ever be taken off the air. It sends out a good and clear message to everyone that if they are thinking about doing this to kids…..THEY NEED TO STOP THINKING AND GO GET SOME REAL PSYCHIATRIC HELP. However, I do have to say I can not see where they are literally caught red handed guilty of actually molesting or harming anyone, so no I do not think they should get the full force of pedophile prosecution, and as the show indicates….most of them dont get that. Very many of them are cut deals as they are in fact no doubt guilty of “attempting” lewd and lascivious acts upon minors and “attempting” to meet minors for illegal sexual activity. I furthermore think that all of these men should be MADE to get psychiatric treatment regardless of whatever other punishment is dealt to them.
We also do not get to see the whole truth of the chat logs…..so we actually do NOT see how much of the sexual encounter/chat that the decoys are actually initiating. If in fact it is true that the decoys are doing half or more of the leading on in any case……then unfortunately I have to say that this is way too much like entrapment. The decoy should in no kind of way initiate the dirty chatting or suggesting of meeting; but going along with the perpetrator IF he starts it all FIRST ; absolutely because thats how the sting is made. Otherwise if its the decoys that are initiating the sexual chat and suggestives of real life encounters…..then it is the decoys that literally create the situation. i.e. creating more problems than they are solving. They want to be sticking to the perpetrators who are aggressively coming on to kids, because they will be by far the most dangerous (and certainly easier to bait and catch)

By: gramkeln

gramkeln — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:00:39 +0000

The idea behind the show is great!, but there really is no reason for the show to be on television except to satisfy the same idiots who watch reality TV or to somehow make themselves feel better.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:54:22 +0000

There should be 20 “Predator” shows on TV catching these slime balls. I hope every single one of them blows their head off, it’ll save on prosecuting them and housing their ass in jail.

I have to wonder if all anti-predator people are members of NAMBLA, because I haven’t heard or read one coherent argument against this. Who the hell cares if NBC makes money off of it? About time the criminals get exploited instead of the kids whose lives they ruin.

To think that this is entrapment is ridiculous. In many of these locales, these pervs are breaking the law just by talking dirty to an underage person, (and btw, it’s irrelevant if the actual person on the other end is not underage. What the criminal thinks is what counts). In addition, these guys are driving to the girl’s house, for crying out loud. To think that they wouldn’t go through with a sex act if allowed is living in a dream land.

Keep it up NBC. It’s one of the few things you’re doing right these days.

By: David

David — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:40:17 +0000

Interesting comments based mainly upon emotional outrage rather than logical thought.

Would half of these people be considered pedophiles if there were no internet and all life as otherwise went on as normal?

Isnt this more akin to ocean fishing with a large net sure you may catch a lot of tuna but what about other marine life that gets caught in the nets?

Are the agendas of some of the people for personal gain, revenge, or some sort of twisted pleasure they themselves get?

Sorry I see no logical reason to put either the victems or the accused in charge of the justice system. This system should be enforced by those with no personal stake in its administration either for profit or other reasons.

By: Aaron Berger

Aaron Berger — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:54:53 +0000

You people are all retard, God **** it! IT IS LEGAL IN THE COUNTRY OF MEXICO TO HAVE SEX WITH A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL, YOU ****** DUMM**** WILL (LISTED A COMMENT ABOVE)!! DO YOU NOT FREAKING KNOW THAT IN SOME FREAKING STATES IN THE U.S. THE AGE OF CONSENT IS AS LOW AS 13 YEARS OLD?? WTF IS SO SICK ABOUT THAT, FREAKING DUMM*** WILL??? YOU WANT TO VILGILLANTE SOMEONE???? HOW ABOUT THAT STINKING PIG COMMANDER DOYLE, EX-POLICE CHIEF OF THE CHICAGO METROPOLITAN POLICE, WHO JUST GOT CONVICTED OF RACKETEERING AND EXTORTION AND FOR BEING A MEMBER OF THE SICILIAN BASED MAFIA???? PERVERTED JUSTICE FOR HIM???? LYNCH HIM???? FOR ALL THE PEOPLE HE MURDERED DURING HIS CAREER, CROOKED COP??? WHY DON’T YOU CHECK THE AGE OF CONSENT LAWS AROUND THE WORLD AND TELL ME WHAT DO YOU SEE, YOUR ALL LIVE IN A FREAKING “GLASS HOUSE”, GOD DAMM***!!!! YOU THINK, “BECAUSE THE STATE OR COUNTY I LIVE IN, THE LAW SAYS HAVING SEX WITH A 13 YEAR GIRL AINT LEGAL, THEREFORE ITS SICK AND WE SHOULD VIGILLANTE ALL PEOPLE WHO DO”, AND GUESS WHAT???? THOSE WHO BANG 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS ARE JUMPING THE BORDER INTO MEXICO AND DOING IT, DUMM***!!!!!!!!! YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING, FREAKING ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE FU–HEADS??? ANY QUESTIONS???

By: Emilio

Emilio — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:26:07 +0000

Number 46.. the mentality of a 13 yr old isnt of a 35 old man. they want these guys because there young and immature. why didnt these same guys look for a 19 or 20 yr old. its becaue its easier to manipulate a younger girl of course. Maybe when your daughter is 13 she can have a boy friend who is also 13 and they can be a cute couple.. actually, if its all the same, why dont we let her be with her 40 yr old math teacher since like you said, she could have the body of a 20 yr old so it would be ok?? your nuts! People on here have really surprised me.. I thought we would all be for getting these guys who areant just looking to get laid cause if they were they can get a hooker or a chat room of there own age. They want to be inside of a 13 yr old!! isnt anyone listening to this.. do you not understand… they want to have sex with a 13 yr old girl!! If they know in there hearts its wrong, then why go… I hate hearing the whole “i have a problem” bull $*%t. I dont buy it.. There only problem is they are lusting, and can only get it from the weak and innocent. If there was a 13 yr old there, the sex would really happen.. do you all want it to go that far to make the arrest??? I am convinced that some of you are insane! To be honest, to me I can careless about prostitution. if a woman wants to degrade her self by selling her body shes an adult she can do wahtever she wants. if a man wants to buy it, go right ahead. But this, no way!

By: Emilio

Emilio — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:09:28 +0000

The fact that everyone seems to know about the Show keeps predators on their toes. I think the show is great. Humiliate them, crush there hopes, dreams, and enitre universe right infront of the world. Put them on t.v so the world can see predators who are teachers, and Doctors who have kids them selves and still try to have sex with 13 yr old girls. We talk about ratings, but the show gets ratings because society is in ‘aw’ every episode when they see how many predators come every day. Its aired because these men can be your next door neighbor and you would never know till they appeared on this show. It is a wonderful show which gets great ratings from fans as well as predators who will think it twice hopefully. Thank you NBC!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:07:39 +0000

I think this show should deffently continue because IT IS KEEPING SICKOS OFF THE STREET and I want to address the people who started this blog who ignorantly beleive that their children do not “desire” to go to chat room and that they “are watched”.Lets be serious, my x-girl friend’s sister was in the same situation(so we thought) but we found out that she was chatting with 40 year old AT THE LIBRARY COMPUTER ROOM!!!! there are privacy laws that prevent the library to monitor these kids!!! This show might be all about rating but so what! it may help sickos from actually visiting these innocient children. None of your kids are safe online no matter what you do…and the judicial system doesnt give a shit b.c theres more paper to be written if a sex predator is caught. PLEASE ABSORB THIS INFORMATION!!!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:44:03 +0000

This is a great show. If you don’t like it then whatever I could care less. Call it what you want but this sends out a message to predators and it also makes me laugh

By: Unison

Unison — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:59:00 +0000

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By: bill

bill — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:13:15 +0000

This show needs to go. It does nothing to help society. America is plagued by sexual repression and dichotomized relationships between the sexes. This show does nothing but to further those problems. When American society begins to promote healthy attitudes towards sex the problems exemplified by this show will decrease or end. But this show is a perverted way of trying to stop a problem. If anything it increases the problem. It also NEVER focuses on female sexual predators, and if you’ve been paying attention to the news you would know there have been quite a few female school teachers who have raped male students. It’s probably been going on forever but it’s only just getting attention. It’s funny how those women are vilified and publicly humiliated. Most of the time they’re barely even prosecuted, they’re given probation or house arrest when a man would be sent to prison to get raped.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:33:12 +0000

To number 46 “Mixed feelings”. Sorry but I disagree with the entrapment argument here. Would it not be safe to say he should have never showed up to the house to begin with? I can personally say they would never get me on there since I would not go to a 13 year old’s house no MATTER what they looked like. Use some sense people.

By: Mixed Feelings

Mixed Feelings — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:43:08 +0000

“lisa” wrote: “looks like the objectors to the program are men. This show is bringing awareness of what is out there on the internet and in our communities on all social levels.”

Yeah, because they exclusively target MEN. I don’t see any dykes getting pinched for “preying” on young girls (not enough room in the cop cars?) or older ‘cougars’ being needlessly tackled by 10 SWAT thugs for attempting to relive thier wasted salad days with a boytoy-tryst. It doesn’t happen? It’s been exposed a few times at GRADE SCHOOLS here in Seattle…

I agree the vast majority of these clowns should be flushed out of civilization anyway, but so should the DATELINE staff.

Oh yeah: The RABBI was a particularly memorable pinchee, I’m still shocked that made it on the air…

By: Mixed Feelings

Mixed Feelings — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:26:12 +0000

My feelings on this issue could not be more mixed, a very rare phenomenon in me.

I have a young daughter, and I shudder to think of any man touching her beneath some disciplined prince of times past, when honor mattered to men of the west. I look at many of these guys and my soul wells with contempt and disgust. They’re gross, and they intend to take advantage of the naiveté of a child. Pretty simple.

Or not. Some ‘counter thoughts’ present themselves to me.

(1) teenage girls can be exceptionally beautiful and sexy. only a liar will deny this. many playboy models are 18 and 19 years old. Are only “perverts” turned on by 19yo TEENAGE girls? Continuing from this is the truth that some 14yo girls LOOK like they’re 19yo girls. For some reason, girls are physically maturing at earlier and earlier ages. The actress in this show IS NINETEEN!! And she is beautiful. Those guys don’t look so disappointed to see her in place of some pre-teen. Are they “perverts” to be attracted to her? Gimme a break! That self-righteous Hansen probably fantasizes about dating her in the unlikely event that he isn’t gay (which in our surreal age is somehow no longer “perverse” while, conversely, thinking 19yo girls are hot is).

Who is the “pervert”- the guy turned on by a 14yo girl with large breasts, a large rump and a curvy figure who LOOKS 22, or a guy turned on by a 22yo woman who LOOKS like she’s 14?!

In reality, we all have complex sexual desires and fantasies. Statistically, most men seek intellect in their mates, but occasionally daydream about flings with bubbly, care-free, barbie-lookalike airheads. In other words, many normal humans occasionally desire stress & hassle-free SEX. Take a look in the mirror and get over it!

(2) OF COURSE IT’S ENTRAPMENT. the last installment of this show to air showed the dialog with a guy who explicitly stated that the girl was TOO YOUNG to be “in there” (an ADULT chat room). After they tried to bait him, he stated outright “maybe if you were 18.” But they didn’t let up, and convinced him to meet their NINETEEN year old actress on a beach before tackling the construction-working father with a pregnant wife at home and charging him with preying on a non-existent “child.”

This guy clearly navigated his computer to a LEGAL, ADULT chat room to interact with adults. Who knows what his home life is like? For the time being, it’s still legal to talk to other adults. For all we know, the fat, sexually frustrated actress at the other end was the first person to take any interest in him. They guy is no predator. They CREATED a “predator” out of law-abiding man, and ruined his life in the process. It’s nauseating.

(3) WE ALL KNOW that age restrictions have a lot to do with our sense of justice over attractiveness level. As Chris Rock observed, Clarence Thomas would’ve never taken heat if he looked like Denzel. I’m 30, and women try to pair me up with their underage daughters SIMPLY because I’m clean, thin, and handsome. If I were 25, fat and ugly, they’d think I was a “pervert” to have any admiration for the beauty of a 16yo girl. (My GF is OLDER than I am, thank you)

But, as I said, I do have mixed feelings. I do think that this show will make a lot of dangerous men think twice about involving themselves with young, impressionable girls. I just find the attitude surrounding this whole endeavor to be pretentious (every one of those pathetic SWAT thugs would LOVE to get in the sack with that 19yo actress, too), and self-righteous (some of these guys arte hardly “predators”).