More Stings Means More Lives Saved
The United States needs more stings targeting child predators. Although they are called "entrapment," it is estimated by Sheriff Chris Swanson of GHOST that each arrest saves the lives of an average of 25 future victims, and these stings have a huge success rate. This makes sense. Whether turned on by young age or simply indifferent, most people busted do not wake up one day and decide to have sex with a minor, and the chance that they are all caught in their first attempt is impossible. The average sting anywhere in the United States can attract a dozen people or more in three or four days. Securing, by law, funding for a minimum of 4-26 stings in each state, every year (depending on the population), as well as training for officers and judges to ensure the best judicial result, would arrest roughly 9,000 more pedophiles and hebephiles every year and save 225,000 more children-- nearly 2.3 million less lives impacted by this disgusting crime over the course of a de