Police Sting Case Study

There are many factors that limit the utility of police sting and reverse sting operations in today's society and in the policing role. Several enforcement tactics target this approach and force the role of the American police's role more challenging. According to chapter 7 pg. 136, there are limitations to all approaches, both buy-and-bust and buy-and-warrant operations often result in revealing the identity of undercover officers (Hoover,2014). There is also an enormous amount of time consumed in working the case, building the case, and trying to solve the case. Consequently, other factors that may limit the utility of police sting and reverse sting operations would be the high risk that it places the officer at every time they play