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Originally Posted by ridemyrazorback
So the "To Protect and Serve" on the vehicles should really say "If I feel like it, I'll Protect and Serve"?
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Learn something new everyday. Thanks!
"So, are law enforcement officers allowed to lie to you? The short answer is yes. Police officers do not have to tell you that they are police officers, even when asked. As long as the officer is lying in the course of performing his or her official duties (like an undercover drug buy), there is no law prohibiting them from doing so. Many people falsely believe that if you ask a cop if they are a cop and they say no, and then you go ahead and sell to them, then this is entrapment and the arrest must be thrown out. This could not be further from the truth.Entrapment is a legal defense to an arrest and is defined as conduct by law enforcement that induces a person to commit an offense that he or she would otherwise have been unlikely to commit.
In order to prove entrapment, the following three conditions must be fulfilled:
(1) The idea for committing the crime came from government agents/law enforcement and not from the person accused of committing the crime;
(2) Government agents/law enforcement then persuaded the accused into committing the crime; and
(3) The person committing the crime was not ready and willing to commit the crime before interaction with government agents/law enforcement.
It is important to remember that there is no entrapment
when a person is ready and willing to break the law and law enforcement merely gives him or her an opportunity to do so."