“The Unjustified Operation Sting’s Excesses,
Its effects, consequences, possible aftereffects and
Suggestions to cub future occurrences.
– A case study of Army veteran Edwin Gennette in the Operation Blue Shepherd”
Olusegun M. Salako
ITT Technical Institute, Hanover

Abstract
With reference to an online publication on the story of a certain Army veteran and a series of other sources of materials (online, in prints and also by employing empirical interviews and findings), that describe the minds of criminals and the procedures of the police sting operations, especially in the Pensacola area of Escambia County in Florida, USA — dubbed Operation Blue Shepherd, this research work expatiates the effects, consequences and possible aftereffects of this operations when these operations’ tactics cross the line to publicly and unjustly tag unintended victims of their online traps, sex offenders. This paper is also aimed at highlighting the different effects of verdicts of punishment on a culprit and on an innocent victim of poor investigations. This work proffers a solution in the form of suggestions to the cases of genuinely debatable arrests of entrapped individuals with obviously legal intentions as in the case of Army veteran Edwin Gennette. Operation Sting should not pressure their temptation tactics on unintended innocent victims, with the use of legal baits, in order to get them to err.
Keywords: pressured temptation tactics, minds of criminals

Intercepting, apprehending and revealing the identities of sex offenders to the general public is most welcomed when absolute fairness is thrown into the operation by recognizing in all sincerity, an individual’s initial and sole intent as he or she walks into the online traps set by the police on dating sites and not tempting an ‘un-premeditating’ online ‘legal fun seeker’ with the good fruit so he can be caught also around the bad one; given the gravity of the consequences this operation can have on an unfortunate person’s life, in virtually all ramifications of it. Rephrasing this in order not to be misunderstood, punishing premeditated sex offenders is highly endorsed by the intent of this work and undoubtedly by any sane-minded person in any civilized community and this paper supports this a hundred percent. The major message this work is getting across is a call to the operation sting’s operatives to devise tactics that will pinpoint predetermined sex offenders and not seek to lure a ‘crime-clueless’ fun seeker into a sex offence. The case of Army veteran Gennette is peculiarly controversial in that, if any judge should analyze what initial intention of Gennette was, he would, in all fairness, be qualified as a common fun seeker and not a predetermined sex offender. If anybody was the criminal in the Gennette’s story, it was the older sister bringing up her underage sister into the discussion when Gennette was clearly not interested. From the account it was seen that she used herself as bait to tempt Gennette to own up to satisfying her wants. The older sister in this situation made, about, all the incriminating suggestions and in reality this older sister is the mind of an operation sting’s agent. This, to any just reasoning, is not fair. What any sane school of thought would expect from this team from the law enforcement is to go after predetermined sex offender by clearly putting up posts that will state that the interested party on the dating site is a minor. With this the issue of temptation and luring people, who have their eyes on the legal baits posed, will be eradicated. Tempting a predetermined sex offender with a clearly stated underage party’s post is thus very reasonable and an arrest as a result of this will be highly justified.
The Effects and consequences of injustice on a self-convinced innocent person.
Research shows that guilty people in most cases see the punishment allotted to them as what they deserve and thus welcome such verdict