Whoa, whoa, whoa! WHAT THE FARKING FARK? Undercover officers at a farking high school? Is that REALLY how low we've dropped? To meddle into the high school social structure for some farking pot? There's NOWAY this is constitutional. I refuse to believe it is.

NARK!!!!!

FTFA: "During his short time there, he got to know the students and teachers. He saw "way more marijuana use than when I was in high school" and watched as good kids began experimenting with drugs."

But when he was in high school "he was an average student who didn't really act out and who sang in his school's choir."

As an undercover cop "he let his grades slip a bit more, sneaked out of class at times and did time in in-school suspension."

I am SHOCKED that he saw more marijuana use!

A fellow undercover officer had to be pulled early from a school this year after another student recognized the officer from a different undercover operation at a different school.

Isn't Facebook doing automatic facial recognition these days?

If Facebook doesn't out him, there are plenty of other tools that can recognize faces. IPhoto can do it. You only need somebody to collect pictures of undercover officers after each mission is revealed and ask students to submit photos of their classmates for screening before buying or selling drugs.

zwesom: Is it weird that I'm okay with this? I mean his intentions seem good enough. As in, it's not like he actively encouraged kids to buy/sell drugs in order to arrest them.

/total square
//so maybe my opinion isn't worth anything

It is no more idiotic than the rest of the "War on Drugs" that we are paying for out of your pocket.

Of course, if marijuana was sold in liquor stores and taxed, we would collect taxes instead of spending them. Then those dollars could be reasonably used to battle underaged drinking AND smoking, while still allowing adults the right to make decisions for themselves.

PraetorianXVIII: but did he get laid

First thought I had as I was reading the story.

Best. undercover. assignment. EVAR.

/Seriously, if he had, the kids would have ratted him out like a shark feeding frenzy.

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Poor guy was getting an A, no one will believe him

Johnny Blake grows up to be a cop played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Dark Knight Rises.

I had a nightmare once about my high school diploma being revoked and I would have to go back (I was 22 years old). It sucked when I was a teenager, I can't imagine being forced to go again as an adult.

ARC7: I don't understand how stories like this can possibly be real. Who could mistake a guy in his 20s or 30s for a high school student? From the article it seems like they re-use the officers, so I can understand the lack of a photograph, but it beggars belief that this could work.

Some people just look REALLY young, even when they aren't. My brother didn't look a day over 18, into his 30s. Now that he's balding and he's getting wrinkles arround his eyes, he finally looks his age, but for the longest time he didn't.

I believe what this actually proves is kids in high school are not as bright as they use to be.


Also I could easily pass as someone 10 years younger than what I am. Although more people are starting to guess college, rather than high school now, or at least guess junior or senior in high school rather than freshman/sophomore.


You do not look truly young until you are forced to threaten to call the police because the new lady at the liquor store confiscates your "fake" ID. Although that was a lot less of a threat and I had my phone out when the owner came into the store, who has known me since before I can remember (My poor parents for some reason let me pick the beer, and as a kid you the deciding factor is almost always going to be the one that has the coolest bottle caps, I still have a big box of bottle caps actually, I have added very little variety of my own to it as I figured out that quality of beer seems to be directly inverse to coolness of the bottle cap). Not to mention I had been legally buying alcohol at that liquor store for 4 years at that point.

I only saw that lady one other time there afterwards, and the end result was the owner buying me my beer so it worked out for everyone.



So yes I can easily see someone in the 25-30 year range pass as a high school student. I know I could.

Unoriginal_Username: fusillade762: video man: Whoa, whoa, whoa! WHAT THE FARKING FARK? Undercover officers at a farking high school? Is that REALLY how low we've dropped? To meddle into the high school social structure for some farking pot? There's NOWAY this is constitutional. I refuse to believe it is.

Where have you been? They've been doing this for decades if I'm not mistaken.

yeah, they have. I remember a narc at the HS I went to in the 90s, he lasted a week

One of those guys who shows up wearing a plaid button-down shirt and says,"I am looking to have some drugs. Have you any?"

ARC7: I don't understand how stories like this can possibly be real. Who could mistake a guy in his 20s or 30s for a high school student? From the article it seems like they re-use the officers, so I can understand the lack of a photograph, but it beggars belief that this could work.

"One student said he suspected me of being a cop, but still sold me pills," the school police officer,

This one, apparently.