Re: I BEAT Parking Services for only a nickel.

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From: Dick Dunn
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 08:23

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salim@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Salim Alam) writes:
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>Also, in response to the "entrapment" charge:  Don't the traffic cops
>hang around waiting for people to speed?  How different is this, in
>principle, from meter maids waiting for meters to expire?   That IS
>their job... 

Having meterpersons (?!:-) waiting for meters to expire is silly, and
wasteful, but it's not "entrapment."  That term has been tossed around
carelessly.  Informally, what "entrapment" means is "doing something to
persuade someone to break a law, then charging them with it."  The
essential point of entrapment is creating a situation in which someone
breaks a law he wouldn't have broken except for the artificially-created
situation.
-- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
   ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.

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From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Subject: Re: I BEAT Parking Services for only a nickel.
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