Tallagator
I loved the show. Maybe, during it's run car thefts may have gone down? Where the vehicles were placed should have had no bearing on a persons decision to commit theft. I love the real life stuff where if, you can't go the time don't commit the crime should applyI saw many characters that had drugs and long extensive histories of taking stuff that didn't belong to them. Racial profiling didn't apply in the cases I saw many were career criminals that deserved to be arrested and convicted of what they were doing.think of the people living in those areas that were affected by the actions of these folks?What about those that come from other places or Cities to target certain neighborhoods?
benjaminhweaver
"Bait Car" is a great show. It is both fun and educational. I like to watch this show with my sons, so that they can see what happens when you do the wrong things with your life.***plot spoilers below***The plot is always the same, but it never gets old: a faked arrest leads to leaving the bait car on the side of the road, which is looked over repeatedly by potential criminals, until one of them finally jumps in the car and attempts to steal it. It is a lot like fishing; there is just something thrilling about seeing something take the bait. From there, "unhooking" the "fish" can get interesting. Some try to smash their way out. Some jump crazily around the cabin. Some go quietly. Some even ALMOST get away.There needs to be more shows like this that show how police try to improve their neighborhoods by targeting high-crime areas and remove criminals. The amazing part of this show is that, on "Bait Car", the criminals lock themselves away...the cops just watch the show.
Christopher Papazoglow
It goes like this: Assemble your team of cops, take your team and your Bait Car to an area as heavily Black and/or Latino as you can find, drop the car off while making it as obvious as possible that it's unlocked and the keys are in it, and wait for the dumb-ass. Once in a great while that dumb-ass will be other than Black or Latino, but it's obvious that AREAS that are primarily Black and/or Latino is the overriding prerequisite for deciding where to drop the car. You'll watch the featured city's PD "set up" in supposedly "where the car thefts are most-often occurring", but almost never include (for the show,at least) an operation in any high-theft area that ISN'T populated primarily by Blacks and/or Latinos. The show appears to be trying to advance the premise that us White folks aren't committing these crimes as much, by as much as possible avoiding placing the bait where us White folks could see it.
carmin0202
i don't understand why cops got nothing better to do than try to set people up all the time its pretty sad that their setting people up with perfect opportunities to steal a car i mean come on now.. yes their thieves their setting up but seriously don't we have anything better to do than putting people in jail for car theft. how bout get their lazy asses busy and start looking for some of these missing kids and investigate real crimes.. car theft although its a common thing the point is its not a person to person crime its a property crime its not like car jacking or robbery its just pathetic were putting people in jail for car theft to crowd the prison systems for car theft when these people are obviously broke to begin with and will never pay their debt to society back for this crime
