Riverside Cops Pretend To Be High Schoolers, Arrest 25 Students For Pot. Riverside County cops — the same guys responsible for tricking an autistic teenager into buying marijuana as part of a drug sting last year — are back on high school campuses. Apparently undeterred by the media firestorm surrounding last year’s arrests and a lawsuit charging the department with negligence, the Riverside County Sherriff’s Department of Riverside County, Calif., has decided to continue its controversial undercover drug investigation program. Under this program, officers spend their days in local high schools pretending to be students. Over a semester, the officers try to build their underaged “classmates’” trust, then arrange drug deals with a few dozen students and ultimately arrest them. [Reason]
Perris is one of the poorer areas of Riverside County. The cops clearly chose that city to target because they knew they wouldn’t have to worry about their victims’ parents being able to afford competent lawyers to defend them.
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