Yesterday i saw in a german canal a Realty show called "Dog the bountey hunter" which is prooduced by an american canal.The show is about a family which business is tracking people and than given them to the authories ( mostly to the cops ) for money. They have police badges , guns armors but their clothes are normal and they travel with a jeep.Also they wear allways sunglasses even at night i think they want be seen cool :) They take information about the fugitive from the police or by keeping people under pressure which are relative to the fugitives.
The point that i will mention is these people go to very dangerous places but not as gouvernements officers and have all the rights what a policemen have and even more.Sometimes they dont react like policement like they go to "hunt" illegaly and one at these hunts they have been arrested because a illegal bounty hunt in mexico territory.
The producers stop for a wile the serie not because he was arrested not because it was dangerous.Just because a tape record was found from Duane Chapman (Dog) which was not good for his reputation.....
The part i saw yesterday they did a breaking to a fugitives home.In the bounty hunter group was also Dog's daughter Lyssa called Baby Lyssa which was pragnet at that time.The point was that Lyssa said before the breaking :" the most important thing is capturing this man " . And i ask my self what about the baby's life putting it direct to the danger is it right ? Because they go in the house with havey guns and armors.
Even the show producers seen this as the right thing to do ; to finding and given that man to justice even it takes or distroys lives...Why would they money comes isn't it the main reason why programmes like this exists ? The show's raiting is very high i suppose because there is allways danger and it is real.And i do not mantion seeing people crying and insulting each other and seeing people putting the other under pressure even if they having kids nearby.
What a serie i do not thing that these producers have a kind of ethic problems or have they or the people who watch this and think that this group do to the right thing :To give fugitives to justice with their own way without hesitating or looking back.....

this is really a very extreme example. I can see how it makes you question their ethical footing. I hadn't heard about this show before, I find it a bit strange - in a way they admit that the police can't do its job and want these people to do the police's job? Also why would they endanger these "ordinary" people by making them face these dangerous fugitives? I find it bothering that such a show can be produced:-(
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