Legally criminal.

For people who are from the Dutchlands, this subject has been on the news the past week:

The luring of criminals.

It's a known concept that the police uses various forms of lure, for example, a lure bike (a normal bicycle, unlocked or poorly locked), lure granny's (for muggers and the likes), lure trucks (cargo trucks with precious cargo) and so on.

There's been a debate going on wether the use of these lure objects is permitted and legally justified. Luring is okay, aslong as whoever is commiting the crime, was not provoked into doing it. Now it has been defined this way: provoking means that you lured someone into doing something that they didn't plan to do. Example: the lure bike is not locked, therefor it provokes to be stolen. You'll have to pardon my French, but I found that to be utter bullshit. For starters, it's an impossible standard to measure. There is no way you can ever know wether that person was going to steal said bike or was tempted to. And if you have a little bit of knowledge, you can always defend yourself, saying you were provoked.

I've read of a case where this happened once, and all charges were dropped (big deal, it was just a bike, but that means there is a start, and who knows where it will end). This was based on the principle of being provoked, since then, police has to be extremely carefull when using lures. Some of the lures I found rather interesting where the one of a girl, who might dress a little sexy. This ofcourse, to lure sexual predators. But according to the provoke rulement, it pretty much comes down to: if you get raped because you dress a little too sexy, you asked for it. If you didn't lock your bike, you're begging for it to be stolen.

The fundamental FLAW here, is that we are protecting the rights of the criminals here. If I see a bike, unlocked, I am in no way provoked to steal it. Simply because I have common decency. Even if someone walked up to me naked, the thought of sexually assaulting that person would never ever cross my mind. I'd merely suggest she'd put some cloths on, it's cold outside these days.

I don't get where our society is going, how can we focus so much of the rights and privileges of wrong doers and totally forget to protect the innocent. If you plan to do wrong, you will do so anyway, it'll just happen a little sooner because of luring. And I rather have those people off the strees sooner then later, just so it'll be a little more safer for us.

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