Deputy caught in department’s own undercover child sex sting operation

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That's got to hurt. I figured this was neat timing with the other thread discussing the difference between pedophilia and child molester. This guy definitely fits in the latter, glad they got him off the street. He was actually in his car, and all that:

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced Tuesday that Derek Vandenham, 34, was “working on-duty, in my car, in my uniform” last week when he was taken into custody as part of Operation Relentless Guardian. Vandenham “was communicating to have sex with a 15-year-old,” Lott said, and he then showed up at a property where officers were waiting to arrest him. He has since been fired.
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How did he miss the memo about the office doing a sting? It seems like this guy of all people should have known better. I'm a little curious how it all came to be since these websites are significantly harder to find since sites like backpage, craigslist, etc. have all been shut down.
 
plague311 said:
That's got to hurt. I figured this was neat timing with the other thread discussing the difference between pedophilia and child molester. This guy definitely fits in the latter, glad they got him off the street. He was actually in his car, and all that:



How did he miss the memo about the office doing a sting? It seems like this guy of all people should have known better. I'm a little curious how it all came to be since these websites are significantly harder to find since sites like backpage, craigslist, etc. have all been shut down.
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Maybe the sting was only posted on internal message boards.

Available: good mower, $100
Wanted: couch
Available: kitchen set, only 5 chairs
Wanted: kids furniture
Available: young girl for good times
 
plague311 said:
How did he miss the memo about the office doing a sting? It seems like this guy of all people should have known better. I'm a little curious how it all came to be since these websites are significantly harder to find since sites like backpage, craigslist, etc. have all been shut down.
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Police/Sheriff's departments rarely hire the best and brightest.
 
plague311 said:
How did he miss the memo about the office doing a sting? It seems like this guy of all people should have known better.
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A different article I read stated that when the deputies running the sting discovered who he was, they gave him a "meeting spot" that was different from where and when the rest of the meetings and arrests were being setup, to avoid tipping him off.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Maybe the sting was only posted on internal message boards.

Available: good mower, $100
Wanted: couch
Available: kitchen set, only 5 chairs
Wanted: kids furniture
Available: young girl for good times
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I wonder if they'd catch people by doing that. You hear these sketchy stories a few times a year, and you have to assume that, like Luchog said, they don't hire the best and brightest. Perhaps it might not be a bad idea to try!

Checkmite said:
A different article I read stated that when the deputies running the sting discovered who he was, they gave him a "meeting spot" that was different from where and when the rest of the meetings and arrests were being setup, to avoid tipping him off.
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Please tell me they sent him to a spot with Chris Hansen sitting there saying, "Why don't you go ahead and have a seat? Do you know why you're here?"
 
What a waste of my tax dollars. If you're going to do an undercover child sex sting operation just ask if there's already any kiddly diddlers on the force and assign them to the sting, much more efficient.
 
JoeMorgue said:
What a waste of my tax dollars. If you're going to do an undercover child sex sting operation just ask if there's already any kiddly diddlers on the force and assign them to the sting, much more efficient.
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Cop: "Hi, insert_name_here. Would you like to have sex with a 15 year old?"

Perv: "Hell yes I would!"

Cop: "Me too :("
 
luchog said:
Police/Sheriff's departments rarely hire the best and brightest.
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Not just that, but...
"In 2010 the CATO Institute’s National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project … [found] Sexual assault and misconduct was the second most frequently reported form of police misconduct after excessive force, representing 9.3% of complaints analyzed. Over half of the officers involved in reported misconduct were alleged to have engaged in forcible nonconsensual sexual conduct while on-duty. Over half of incidents analyzed alleged police sexual misconduct with minors. Rates of sexual assault rising to the level of FBI index crimes were found to be significantly higher among law enforcement officers than the general population.…"​
 
The Norseman said:
Not just that, but...
"In 2010 the CATO Institute’s National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project … [found] Sexual assault and misconduct was the second most frequently reported form of police misconduct after excessive force, representing 9.3% of complaints analyzed. Over half of the officers involved in reported misconduct were alleged to have engaged in forcible nonconsensual sexual conduct while on-duty. Over half of incidents analyzed alleged police sexual misconduct with minors. Rates of sexual assault rising to the level of FBI index crimes were found to be significantly higher among law enforcement officers than the general population.…"​
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I wonder how that compares with police forces in other western countries.
 
The Norseman said:
Not just that, but...
"In 2010 the CATO Institute’s National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project … [found] Sexual assault and misconduct was the second most frequently reported form of police misconduct after excessive force, representing 9.3% of complaints analyzed. Over half of the officers involved in reported misconduct were alleged to have engaged in forcible nonconsensual sexual conduct while on-duty. Over half of incidents analyzed alleged police sexual misconduct with minors. Rates of sexual assault rising to the level of FBI index crimes were found to be significantly higher among law enforcement officers than the general population.…"​
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Not surprising at all. The police where I grew up really liked harassing the cute jailbait.
 
Belz... said:
I wonder how that compares with police forces in other western countries.
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Yes, an interesting question. The fact that power corrupts could mean that police worldwide are committing crimes at a greater rate than the society they police but then again, many other more socialist countries tend to do far better in hiring and training their police and also tend to actually hold them to a higher standard of behavior as opposed to US cops which are to be treated as wild, unpredictable animals (as ponderingturtle very aptly points out).
 
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