A traditional conception of law enforcement paints it to be necessarily reactive. That is to say, only once a crime has been committed can detectives and police officers begin the process of information-gathering and apprehending the perpetrator. This, unfortunately, requires that a crime already have been committed, meaning that someone had already been in some way harmed. The solution to this problem, seemingly, is entrapment. Entrapment is the practice of any government agent in some way deceiving or coercing an otherwise law-abiding citizen into committing a crime in order to secure a…