Authority Figures

Episode aired Dec 7, 2018
TV-14
42m

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Donnie Wahlberg, Leon, and Marisa Ramirez in Blue Bloods (2010)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A video surfaces of officers partaking in a clear case of entrapment; Frank searches for the leaker; Eddie retaliates against a co-worker who is pranking Jamie; Danny and Baez investigate th... Read allA video surfaces of officers partaking in a clear case of entrapment; Frank searches for the leaker; Eddie retaliates against a co-worker who is pranking Jamie; Danny and Baez investigate the murder of a tabloid writer.A video surfaces of officers partaking in a clear case of entrapment; Frank searches for the leaker; Eddie retaliates against a co-worker who is pranking Jamie; Danny and Baez investigate the murder of a tabloid writer.

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gblaylock

Summary of this episode is misleading.

The summary of this episode says that it involves a clear case of entrapment. No, it does not. Entrapment occurs when law enforcement personnel coerce a person into committing a crime which that person would not ordinarily do and then arresting that person for the crime. That is not what happened in this episode. In this case, the police set out some bate and scooped up the people who took it. There was no coercion. The people who took the bait did so of their own free will without the police saying or doing anything to them until they were arrested. It was clearly not entrapment.

Also, just in case there may be some controversy about this, I asserted that it does not contain spoilers because the events described occur at the very beginning of the episode. The drama occurs as a result of how the department deals with the situation that results.

Trivia
Christmas Truce of 1914 : British and French Troops laid down their arms, climbed out of the trenches and played soccer with their German counterparts; It involved over 100,000 men all over the Western Front (French-German border) .

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The main premise of one of the sub-plots is the NYPD entrapping people via use of a broken down truck carrying merchandise. As depicted, it was not "clear-cut" entrapment, nor was it entrapment at all. In Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540, 548 (1992), a valid entrapment defense has two related elements: (1) government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. In Mathews v. United States, 485 U.S. 58, 63 (1988), the court held that of the two elements, predisposition is by far the more important.

Inducement is the threshold issue in the entrapment defense. Mere solicitation to commit a crime is not inducement. In Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 451 (1932), the court ruled the government's use of artifice, stratagem (such as the truck example), pretense, or deceit establish inducement.

A clear-cut case of entrapment would involve undercover NYPD officers on the street encouraging others to illegally enter the truck and steal the merchandise.