Riverside Cop Tricks Autistic Teen into Buying Pot

(youtube) "We felt like our family was totally violated by the sheriff's department and the school district," says Doug and Catherine Snodgrass of Temecula, California. Last December their 17-year-old autistic high school son was arrested after twice buying marijuana for an undercover Riverside county police officer.

The undercover operation, titled "Operation Glass House," spanned a few months and included undercover officers in three area high schools: Chaparral, Temecula Valley, and Rancho Vista Continuation. The officers posed as regular high school students and would ask other students for drugs. Twenty-two students were arrested - the majority of them are reported to be special needs students like the Snodgrass' son.
newtboyjokingly says...

What do you expect, the cops to go after people that can defend themselves? The cops are mostly special needs people, so they go after other special needs people. It makes perfect sense to me.
Thank you prison privatization.

Phreezdrydsays...

This beyond shameful practice needs to be loudly and publicly shoved in the federal governments face, demanding a stop to funding a quota based drug war targeting defenseless special needs children. As if it isn't evil enough to manipulate impressionable, peer pressure driven kids without going after easy targets already ostracized by whatever condition, making them even more vulnerable.

Isn't there a special level of hell reserved for those who hurt children for profit?

chingalerasays...

Rancho Vista Continuation..Who names a community that?

Power-hungry big-brained people work for the world rapists.
Power-hungry simpletons toil with glee as the enforcement arm for their machine.

AeroMechanicalsays...

I was taught the definition of 'entrapment' as "The police can't sell you drugs, and then arrest you for buying drugs.' I don't see how the middle-man really makes much of a difference. You're arrested for doing something a police officer told you to do (undercover or not).

Also, if I went to some teenager, asked them to go get me some drugs, they did, and then we got arrested, I'm pretty sure I'd be charged with something akin to corrupting a minor.

Anyways, if we legalize the ganja, we won't have these problems.

poolcleanersays...

I'll show you some fucked up pictures of the continuation school right by my house. "TRUANCY ENFORCEMENT" sign plasted across the front. Reeeaaaallllyyyyy gives me hope for the future of education in this forsaken land.

chingalerasaid:

Rancho Vista Continuation..Who names a community that?

Power-hungry big-brained people work for the world rapists.
Power-hungry simpletons toil with glee as the enforcement arm for their machine.

poolcleanersays...

Just the facts, ma'am: Your son is a drug peddling, user, dope fiend, dredged stoner deranged mentally maladjusted offender of this God fearing, drug regulating, fear inducing, hammer driving country. Down with the communism.

Kill yourself if you can't compete. And certainly an austistic child has no place in this society of sociopathic greed mongerers.

MilkmanDansays...

Others mentioned the term, but how is this not textbook entrapment?:

"In criminal law, entrapment is conduct by a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit.[1] In many jurisdictions, entrapment is a possible defense against criminal liability."

OK, the kid had the charges dropped after a court appearance probably based largely on that defense, but it is disgusting that it ever got that far.

And how did the school not only go along with it at first, but they continue to?! Any principal or superintendent for a school district should see that for what it is -- complete bullshit. Then again, I guess that "no child left behind" and the almighty tax dollars being linked to test scores has already removed common sense and human decency from the list of prerequisites among such school administration figures. Sell-outs in pocketbook and soul.

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