A Teacher Died By Suicide After Being Arrested for Soliciting a Minor. His Family Says the Cops Went Rogue.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Chad Petersen said he supported sting operations and law enforcement going after men who prey on minors.
47% : But the teacher left behind his own version of events, one his family is now using to point the finger at what they describe as overzealous law enforcement.
46% : He said he'd always supported law enforcement's efforts to catch predators in stings -- until he realized they were not always targeted operations to catch men explicitly hunting and soliciting minors.
45% : But even as former prosecutors briefed on Petersen's case acknowledged grey areas, they also said law enforcement was in a tough spot to let someone go once they continued speaking with someone representing themself as a child.
36% : He criticized law enforcement for being bad at pretending to be teens, and said he never believed he was going to meet a teen the day he was arrested.

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