ShortHand: Should We Support Paedophile Catchers?

RedHanded

True Crime

4.5 • 19.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

To some paedophile catchers like Chris Hansen are online superheroes, protecting children and putting predators behind bars. To others they're vigilantes who enforce their own form of justice while putting people in danger. But do they have a place in the system? This week Hannah and Suruthi are jumping into the murky waters of self styled sting operations, hidden cameras, and entrapment to find out.

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https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81574287
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3269/to-catch-a-predator/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQBsJeVVxYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90IPfBC_xIs

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0:34.0	Hello, hi.
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0:58.0	Since the mass adoption of the internet in the late 90s,
1:01.0	message boards and social media have created a virtual hunting ground for pedophiles.
1:06.0	Last year, the NSPCC revealed that the online grooming cases
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