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by Lauren Trager / News 4
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(KMOV) --Provoking police just to earn cold hard cash: that’s the idea behind a group advertising in St. Louis. But that cash could come out of the tax payer pocket.
*Instantly pretty aggravated, I was pretty mad right away,* said Jonathon Miller.
Miller was simply searching for a job on Craigslist when he came across the advertisement for a group called *Cop Watch.*
In poorly written text, it asks for a crew to shoot video of undercover investigators pushing police to violate civil rights.
The ad promises pay of $50-60,000 all from the revenue of lawsuits.
*From the ad, do you get the sense they want to bait cops into doing something wrong? To me that’s what it seemed like, intentionally causing conflict.*
News 4 did some digging and found that *Cop Watch* is a national organization claiming to root out misconduct by catching bad cops on camera...
News 4’s Lauren Trager emailed the address on the ad, but no one got back to her.
*I think it’s illegal, a scam and I think its shameful behavior,* said Jeff Roorda with the St. Louis Police Officer’s Association. He taking the video isn’t the problem—it’s provoking police. He says it could be considered entrapment or extortion.
More- he says it could be putting people in harm’s way and will only hurt taxpayers who foot the bill for frivolous lawsuits.
by Lauren Trager / News 4
KMOV.com
Related:
KMOV mobile app - for news on the go
(KMOV) --Provoking police just to earn cold hard cash: that’s the idea behind a group advertising in St. Louis. But that cash could come out of the tax payer pocket.
*Instantly pretty aggravated, I was pretty mad right away,* said Jonathon Miller.
Miller was simply searching for a job on Craigslist when he came across the advertisement for a group called *Cop Watch.*
In poorly written text, it asks for a crew to shoot video of undercover investigators pushing police to violate civil rights.
The ad promises pay of $50-60,000 all from the revenue of lawsuits.
*From the ad, do you get the sense they want to bait cops into doing something wrong? To me that’s what it seemed like, intentionally causing conflict.*
News 4 did some digging and found that *Cop Watch* is a national organization claiming to root out misconduct by catching bad cops on camera...
News 4’s Lauren Trager emailed the address on the ad, but no one got back to her.
*I think it’s illegal, a scam and I think its shameful behavior,* said Jeff Roorda with the St. Louis Police Officer’s Association. He taking the video isn’t the problem—it’s provoking police. He says it could be considered entrapment or extortion.
More- he says it could be putting people in harm’s way and will only hurt taxpayers who foot the bill for frivolous lawsuits.
