Low level individual crimes wouldn’t be practical. Probably more worthwhile to try to follow more reliable organised crime or repeat offending criminals or something. Although even that wouldn’t practical as an individual without serious investigative resources and you’d still probably end up dead pretty quickly.
The only successful vigilantism is probably the online entrapment of paedophiles or something of that sort. Even that is highly questionable.
Going undercover to eventually blow the whistle could be doable, I guess. I seem to remember reading in a criminology text that there’s actually career snitches that do basically that in hopes of a reward. Which seems crazy, but whatever.
It’s not really what I think OP was thinking of, though.
Low level individual crimes wouldn’t be practical. Probably more worthwhile to try to follow more reliable organised crime or repeat offending criminals or something. Although even that wouldn’t practical as an individual without serious investigative resources and you’d still probably end up dead pretty quickly.
The only successful vigilantism is probably the online entrapment of paedophiles or something of that sort. Even that is highly questionable.
Going undercover to eventually blow the whistle could be doable, I guess. I seem to remember reading in a criminology text that there’s actually career snitches that do basically that in hopes of a reward. Which seems crazy, but whatever.
It’s not really what I think OP was thinking of, though.
I’ve hears animal rights activists will get a job in a slaughter house to blow the whistle.
Yes, to the point where the people hiring for those jobs are pretty paranoid now.
The closest we’ve had it a green hatted man