Reply #19: I have only minor criticisms.

[LoZoccolo]

I don't object to televising a sting operation, but there are a few things they could do to improve it.

- When a child is abused, there is not always an investigative reporter to come to the rescue just before it happens. If they took five or ten minutes to teach parents and other people how to recognize when a child might have been abused, or how to prevent it, they would greatly increase the public service value of the show by only sacrificing coverage of about one bust.

- Sometimes the relationship between the vigilante group, the network, and the police becomes a little bit weird. I don't have a link, but I had heard that the vigilante group was temporarily deputized by one of the police departments while at the same time collecting a fee from the network. I am not comfortable with people in the employ of a corporation serving as an arm of the government, and they did not have to arrange things this way in order to carry out the sting operation. It's unclear to me why the deputization would have to take place if the real police are present the entire time.