Bait Car

2007

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Synopsis

Bait Car is an American television series airing on the truTV network.The pilot episode was called Negro Trap, but was changed after protests from the NAACP. The program retains the original name in Asian and South American syndication. The show depicts would-be car thieves caught in the act of auto theft. Police target criminals with a high-tech bait car, rigged with hidden cameras and radio trackers. Viewers are taken along for the ride from the moment the car is stolen to the thief's arrest.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
jubileeng Awful. There is nothing interesting about police setting up traps. It is one thing to go catch active criminals, and a terrible other to provoke and create criminals. We have enough crime for them to fight, rather than them enticing minorities for TV ratings. America is a joke. This shouldn't be legal. These cops afraid to catch the real bad guys. We will so much to be "entertained" that we disregard a certain level of morals and ethics to those who should uphold them.I think their focus should be on the cars that have already been stolen, rather than sitting around waiting for someone to steal a car that they have planted. What low grade type of police work is this.....smh
Tallagator I loved the show. Maybe, during it's run car thefts may have gone down? Where the vehicles were placed should have had no bearing on a persons decision to commit theft. I love the real life stuff where if, you can't go the time don't commit the crime should applyI saw many characters that had drugs and long extensive histories of taking stuff that didn't belong to them. Racial profiling didn't apply in the cases I saw many were career criminals that deserved to be arrested and convicted of what they were doing.think of the people living in those areas that were affected by the actions of these folks?What about those that come from other places or Cities to target certain neighborhoods?
Christopher Papazoglow It goes like this: Assemble your team of cops, take your team and your Bait Car to an area as heavily Black and/or Latino as you can find, drop the car off while making it as obvious as possible that it's unlocked and the keys are in it, and wait for the dumb-ass. Once in a great while that dumb-ass will be other than Black or Latino, but it's obvious that AREAS that are primarily Black and/or Latino is the overriding prerequisite for deciding where to drop the car. You'll watch the featured city's PD "set up" in supposedly "where the car thefts are most-often occurring", but almost never include (for the show,at least) an operation in any high-theft area that ISN'T populated primarily by Blacks and/or Latinos. The show appears to be trying to advance the premise that us White folks aren't committing these crimes as much, by as much as possible avoiding placing the bait where us White folks could see it.
carmin0202 i don't understand why cops got nothing better to do than try to set people up all the time its pretty sad that their setting people up with perfect opportunities to steal a car i mean come on now.. yes their thieves their setting up but seriously don't we have anything better to do than putting people in jail for car theft. how bout get their lazy asses busy and start looking for some of these missing kids and investigate real crimes.. car theft although its a common thing the point is its not a person to person crime its a property crime its not like car jacking or robbery its just pathetic were putting people in jail for car theft to crowd the prison systems for car theft when these people are obviously broke to begin with and will never pay their debt to society back for this crime