A study uncovers questionable techniques employed by police to place alleged intimate offenders behind pubs.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who is additionally mind regarding the Florida Sheriff’s Task Force on online crimes against young ones, has invited MSNBC and CNN reporters along for a few of their stings. (Picture: Calvin Knight, AP)

BARTOW, Fla. — In the ten years since Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator sections popularized Web intercourse stings, significantly more than 1,200 guys in Florida have already been arrested, accused of preying on underage teens and kids for intercourse.

But since the stings put increasingly more males behind bars, detectives will work harder and harder to help keep their arrest numbers up. And also the techniques they truly are utilizing to place alleged offenders that are sexual jail are sweeping up more and more law-abiding males, too.

A number of the males whoever mugshots sheriffs were paraded in made-for-TV press conferences [...]