Police Stings #lastweektonight

0:00 You probably know that cops like running sting operations

0:02 given just how often they appear on local news.

0:05 Drivers for the online ride service Uber targeted in an LA sting operation.

0:10 Dozens of people have been indicted

0:12 in a criminal sting operation called Operation Hush.

0:15 A 4-month major sting operation ends

0:17 with a Butler County man facing felony drug charges.

0:20 Investigators set up a sting operation orchestrating

0:22 a purchase with the suspected drug traffickers.

0:25 The amount of fentinel seas and hear this could

0:28 kill the entire population of Louisville several times over.

0:33 Wow.

0:33 Is that anchor?

0:35 Okay.

0:36 Cops say there was enough fentel to annihilate this god-forsaken town,

0:39 leaving behind nothing but a desert of crop peegged bones

0:42 future generations will only refer to as the shadow place.

0:45 Up next, we'll take you inside Louisville's new aquarium, which,

0:48 and hear this, contains enough water to drown us all several times over.

0:53 But whilst things are often celebrated as triumphs on the news,

0:56 when you start digging into them,

0:57 the details can quickly become questionable at best.

1:01 Take that Uber sting.

1:02 The way operations like those work is an undercover officer flags down an Uber,

1:06 maybe says they don't have the app or that their phone is dead,

1:08 and officers to pay cash for a ride to their destination.

1:11 The trap being ride share drivers are

1:13 subject to arrest if a ride isn't pre-arranged.

1:16 But that seems like a pretty shitty thing to do given drivers may have

1:19 been bending the rules to help someone who was telling them they were in need.

1:23 And that makes it kind of satisfying to watch this video shot by someone caught

1:26 in a similar sting who then went back

1:28 to the same location to warn other drivers.

1:32 Hey brother, those people are undercover cops.

1:34 I just got a citation for this.

1:36 Oh, really?

1:37 Yeah.

1:37 They trapped me.

1:41 Yep.

1:41 Good job, guys.

1:43 I'll see y'all in court.

1:44 Oh, I thought your phone was dead.

1:46 Oh, your phone ain't dead no more, huh?

1:49 Excellent.

1:49 Everything about that is great.

1:50 From the speed at which the driver pulls away when he hears the word

1:53 cops to the cop's clear disappointment to the glee of the guy taunting them.

1:58 I honestly haven't been this delighted to see a cop

2:00 on camera since that Boston big boy zooted out of the slide.

2:08 It's still so good.

2:10 It will never not be good.

2:12 If I die with a SMILE ON MY FACE,

2:14 YOU WILL know that that was the last thing I saw.