Since the show, “To Catch a Predator” went off the air, a corner of YouTube has taken up the mantle: posing as underage kids online, waiting for older men to send sexually explicit messages and then filming a confrontation with the men in public. The Dads Against Predators duo has been making this content for years but is particularly controversial because law enforcement has publicly denounced them, telling them to leave this work to the professionals.
In this episode of My Life Online, we shine a light on the grey area this content inhabits. Are these vigilante YouTube creators helping expose predators or making it more difficult for law enforcement to do their jobs? Are they potentially saving lives or just risking their own?
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BadWallaby
24.10.2023ICAC officer is delusional. Law Enforcement will never have the time or funding to go after these fuckers. “Vigilante” is such a loaded term.
tarstarkusz
24.10.20230:40 He acts like he's volunteering to be a cop unpaid. God I hate these people.
Piper Lori Williams-Tudhope
24.10.2023You guys are super heroes! The authorities just sit on their hands. Instead of complaining about what DAP does why not colab together? The reason why those predators off’d themselves is because of the complete evil that lives in their pitiful souls. Reminds me of Judas in the Bible.
TheCoinPirate
24.10.2023There motives for money I’m pretty sure they have COPS on tv. Keep doing you man smoke weed expose the bad guys!
DurrtyBuck
24.10.2023Both sides are pretty sick. One looking to prey on minors and the other posing to be one.
DDSouls
24.10.2023Represent Ohio! So glad you do what you do. I have a daughter, and I would literally KILL if something like this ever happened with her..
Jerrod Cardwell
24.10.2023No one is "against" humiliating predators it's that these obvious knuckleheads do more harm than good.
Jnr 218
24.10.2023Who do we blame,
Our government, or us as a society,
Or us as individuals,
Our actions speak louder than words,
Whos to blame,
Let me know what yous think?
Every ones opinions matter,
Its ugly but true, humans are the worst predators/animals,made
Living In Reality
24.10.2023Fame!
Jacob Frame
24.10.2023Did I just hear someone say that you should not do this work for money or subscribers? We should have government funded financial incentives for everyone to rid our society of child predators.
Angie H
21.10.2023What is sad is that usually child predators do not have the emotional ability to be ashamed or guilty. I've spoken to one once after he got out of prison for 10 years, and he smiled about it. It's creepier than we normal ppl can comprehend
Pussy Destroyer
21.10.2023Guys like this are the problem with amateur predator hunters. They're high school bullies who no longer had anyone to bully.
It's a couple losers who found a bigger group of losers they can mess with.
It's also shocking how many of these amateur predator hunters have extensive criminal records.
Robert Metivier
21.10.2023Get cops to do what Ghost in flint Michigan did. So you guys can work with them.
Tyler Andersen
21.10.2023I was literally at the bar this weekend. And someone called a guy out for being a registered sex offender. There were 3 different Women defending the chimo… Then there was like six dudes defending those three women… Motherfuckers are sick these days
Fatabernichtdick
21.10.2023Vice I’m sorry but you did a very very bad job here. At least explain what the term pedophile actually is, and also show the other side. That’s not good journalism, onesided. I also feel like the detective is badly cut out of context
Fatabernichtdick
21.10.2023„Nothing is clickbaited“ – calls non pedos pedos… welllll
Rocio Rodriguez
21.10.2023Keep exposing them, great job!
big roshi
21.10.2023Long live boo pac Shakur
Mitch Capps
21.10.2023Detective basically said its too hard to catch them that's what I heard exactly. So fucked up. Yet dap does it , they send the pics, the videos etc etc they do what it takes unlike the feds.
Mitch Capps
21.10.2023Rip boopac and let's protect these groups alot more.
Superstorm Sandy
17.10.2023Love these guys 👏🏻👏🏻. Keep fighting the good fight
Joseph Derby
17.10.2023To the bald headed moran maybe work harder. You should be underneath these men trying to lift them up. Let someone try an touch my kids
Damian Foti
17.10.2023This makes your videos even better had no clue y’all was besties hell yeah
alan alt
17.10.2023There exposing people on all platforms if there making money it’s a plus and the officer does his job for money to like they are putting time into this if they make money that’s great
Ali Zaidan Thamyeez
17.10.2023we're living in a world where a detective is disregarding the people that are going out of their way to catch these predators. It ain't about the money, it's about the message. They've done more in a few minutes than law enforcement have done in years.
Kendo
17.10.2023Your only a vigilante when you do a better job at policing things then the police them selves these dudes do the job that the cop continuously fail to do and after hearing the cop talking about we see them in the news doing something I ain’t never seen a pedo getting took off the streets by the police only time I hear from them is usually after they murdered a innocent person
Eric Weil
17.10.2023Dood this internet police officer is making noooo sense at all. He basically saying we’re to lazy and DAP is too good. Soooooo crazy.
Larry Crabs
17.10.2023We wasn't doing this for any altruistic reasons. He did it for money.
PatrickStar
17.10.202312:51 – 13:22 That's the problem. Bring in a law making it a crime to try and molest a child.
SIMPLE FORMULA, SIMPLE LAW SYSTEMATIC.
Mason Kanterbury
17.10.2023Normalizing weed and demonizing child predation…. I like it very much. Used to be a child would get snatched and the police would run to their neighborhood hippy house and bust them all for weed. Children would disappear and police would bring in more weed arrests and beg the public to focus on that instead.
Jaz G
14.10.2023Heroes
Skyler Walker
14.10.2023I’d start doing this too but idk if I could control my temper with these people.
Ramsy Asha
14.10.2023Gotta throw in skeeter next 😂💯
Max V
14.10.2023Dap is been the realest in the pred catching scene. DAP forever!!
Ben Taylor
14.10.2023Mundyyyyy
Landon Jones
14.10.2023I’m shockingly surprised to see vice even touch stories like this considering the outlet that they are. Vice for the most part is absolute sjw trash.
Nick Kirschner
14.10.2023I like the police commander who routinely lets child predators go free because he doesn’t think there’s enough evidence, he’s seems like a great guy who really cares. Lol. He’s big mad that some fools on YouTube are better at his job than he is despite all the training he’s made his state and county pay for. The police need to get off their fat behinds and start taking care of these fools lest they leave family men and women no other choice but to end these scumbags themselves.
CleoPhoenix
14.10.2023These men are getting SHOT at while protecting a child and the detective complains about "nOt getTinG to be little giRls in the chat room anymore because theyre cAtcHing on."
Like, are you fking serious my guy? I really hope he doesnt have kids. Most dads in his position would be trying work WITH them. Provide protection, teach them on how to collect the evidence the prosecutor needs. UGH. Gross. Go into accounting.
Truth_is_the _new_hate
14.10.2023We need laws in every state that give preds a room temperature challenge for doing this to kids.
Truth_is_the _new_hate
14.10.2023"would you be doing this if it wasn't for YouTube?"
What he's asking is would they be doing it if they didn't make money off of it?
Somebody should have asked him the same question. Somehow I doubt he'd "protect and serve" if he wasn't being paid for it. I doubt he'd volunteer cop.
Strctly Biz
13.10.202313:10 and that’s the fucking problem with the criminal capture process.
SAM Castañeda
13.10.2023That pisses me off that they wanna look at the money aspect and not the act of child predators attempting to rape children. I hope all those who catch child predators make millions doing it they got it all on video anyway for proof.
And why not be more
Pissed at YouTube for siding with the pedophiles
SAM Castañeda
13.10.2023It just vexes me greatly that law enforcement looks at it as they didn’t do it yet instead of knowing that many lives are saved by doing this. If it was their own child they would have a different perspective
natedawg
13.10.2023Id bet my bottom dollar that clown that works for the state was put in that position and he's in on things or protecting that ones that are. These dudes are doing right thing, we need more of these guys bc our 3 letter govt agencies obviously don't want too much effort into it.
Nathen Stack
13.10.2023When he started crab walking I knew he was serious.
Steve Urkel
13.10.2023I don’t care if they get paid to do this. It needs to be done. Who gaf. Doing this type of work isn’t cheap so of course they should be compensated. They are not making anyone support them.
Decii Productions
13.10.2023"These are offenders we should be paying attention to". 🤣🤣 like do your job and it shoukdnt be a problem. Perfect examply of a useless government agency complaining about the results of them failing to do their job, and blaming someone else for it. Gotta love america.
Samhian Blackmoon
13.10.2023Yes
Andy Semite
13.10.20237:30 translation: “the problem with dads against predators is that, unlike law enforcement, they actually take preemptive action instead of waiting for the predator to actually hurt a child like we would.” Cops are fucking useless
Kacie
13.10.2023The problem is that police can’t charge these predators with anything because the way these guys go about catching them… if they were to pursue charges it would be too easy for the predators attorney to turn the tables in court.