why doesn't LE pose as fake sellers to catch people? or are there any known examples of them doing it?

okay narcotics cops already sometimes sell drugs to catch dealers, right? why don't they just make a DNM account, sell stuff for slightly below market value, and buyers would literally be giving them their address. sure they can't prove that it was the buyer themselves who ordered it, but that doesn't seem to matter when they do CD's right?

it seems like they could do that, have a warrant ready, and when the person picks up their package, kick in the door and search the place and they'd probably find tons of other stuff. if they did this enough, people would be too afraid to buy from new sellers. why don't they do this?


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[31 Points] DNMCommenter84:

Basically, cops have to choose how to spend their limited resources, and unless there's some moral aspect (guns, toxins, fent, etc.) they see little advantage to chasing down a misdemeanor arrest. They want maximum payoffs and maximum seizures for their manhours, so they pick the biggest, stupidest, most obvious dealers they can find. Plus anybody selling anything particularly antisocial (poison, guns, CP, etc.) that involves actual physical harm. Cops love low hanging fruit.

Trust me, they're fully aware of all of us and I'm sure there's many who dream of a police state in which they had the untold billions of dollars and unlimited power it would take to chase us all down individually. But until then, it's way, way, way too much trouble, so they grudgingly ignore us personal buyers like the flies buzzing around their ears and settle for assraping idiots with shitty OPSEC who move thousands of dollars in hard drugs. Even that task keeps them quite busy all the time.

However, that could very easily change if the markets don't start taking a stand on fent and fent analogs. We're already all being tarred with that brush and they could very easily kick the whole TOR structure down (to the ringing cheers of the average square) if they decided to make it a moral issue about protecting kids and addicts from fent.


[21 Points] dickmuppet:

Plot twist: a lot of vendors are cops. Selling confiscated drugs to turn a profit.


[13 Points] DooshNozzzle:

the FBI does make profiles on here, they sell things like poison and guns though.


[6 Points] heyitslambchop:

They do. There have been a few cases where people have purchased firearms and ricin and gotten arrested. I do wonder why they don't list kilos of some shit too.. maybe they have enough retards falling for buying firearms? Not sure. It may not be worth it doing it for drugs since nothing may come of it..but if you're trying to buy weapons there's probably a better chance if they search your place they will find something to arrest you for.


[4 Points] straightcompton123:

Along with entrapment, the LE isn't after the buyers. They're after the source. They aren't going to waste their time snapping off branches when they could cut down the whole tree.


[2 Points] JRST99:

Because the cops want the sellers not the users


[2 Points] providerofexpierence:

Because LE would rather make mad cash off selling drugs. A lot of paper with no paper work to fill out.


[0 Points] ThePercectTaco:

These guys are right, they want the vendors plus this would be a clear-cut case of entrapment. You can be damn sure they are placing orders though and getting fingerprints, DNA samples and whatever information they can from distributors however. If I was a vendor I would act as if every pack I was sent out was going to a lab looking for such things.


[-2 Points] PussyC4tcher:

I think USA cops arent allowed to start selling drugs or trying (acting) to do so.


[-5 Points] Rayn211:

Entrapment