RE: FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
January 23, 2016 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2016 at 2:44 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 23, 2016 at 2:33 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I'm not saying they failed or succeeded. I'm saying there has been some success rate. 137 arrests. The numbers of people who visited the website do not necessarily reflect the success of the operation since they are worldwide and not under the responsibility of the FBI.
Forming a percentage related to the entire number of people using the site is no measure of the success or failure of the operation.
Nonsense. If I start a program to round up stray cats, do I measure my success based on how many cats were rounded up in the next city, or how many stray cats there are as a whole in my own city?
The fact is that the FBI is not the only enforcement agency involved. You keep pointing out that they have no jurisdiction outside America -- but you keep ignoring the fact that so far as anyone here knows, there have been no foreign arrests.
(January 23, 2016 at 2:33 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Another inaccurate thing to say is that I'm comfortable with the ends justifying the means and law enforcement breaking the law.
What I'm comfortable with is FBI agents keeping an illegal website running for the duration of 2 weeks in order to catch 137 paedophiles.
This is a distinction without a difference.
(January 23, 2016 at 2:33 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I understand you're not comfortable with the operation I've said I agree there are ethical concerns, but what isn't a concern is the number you came up with as a successful arrest rate percentage, it just has no practical value.
If you have any numbers which support your points, please put them up. I'll wait.
That's right, you don't. You have the same number I have: less than ten pedophiles per day arrested for the duration of the site's FBI management. You choose to think of that as a success.
