You say you have cooperation of law enforcement,
that they support what you're doing.
And I found that really hard to believe
because I do work with law enforcement and investigators,
detectives that would do this kind of work
would be very experienced, very sophisticated detectives.
These wouldn't be first, second, third-year detectives.
These would be people with a lotta seasoning,
specialized training.
I found it hard to believe.
So I did contact law enforcement in your area.
Captain Greg McLean
from the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit,
from the Post Falls Police Department in Idaho
gave us this statement.
"Jesse does not have the skills or ability
"to successfully build a case against alleged predators.
"We have multi-jurisdictional department
"of trained professionals who specialize
"in this very complex area of the law.
"Jesse is making it more difficult for law enforcement
"by making these offenders more paranoid.
"Our task force has a great prosecution rate,
"where Jesse does not.
"I wanna emphasis how dangerous it is for Jesse
"to be doing this.
"There are many documented incidences
"where the suspect is armed or commits suicide
"after being confronted.
"It would be better if Jesse left it to us
"to deal with this issue."
Now you said you had their support
and they they were right behind you
and really with you.
That does not sound like that to me at all.
I said they'd been receptive.
We've had ICAC reach out to us.
Does that sound receptive?
Receptive in the sense of us
on the scene, having them come.
And in fact, Jean and I got pulled over
just for a police officer to shake our hand
and say from a paternal standpoint, he thanks us.
So I understand and I can see where
Internet Crimes Against Children is coming from with that.
Travis Benson, he was in prison eight years
and he's back in jail after we confronted him.
28 individuals that we've already confronted
on different sites using different pictures,
once we get to the age,
which we usually do on the third message,
out of those 28 individuals,
27 have blocked and have not
communicated with the young girl.
I'm tryin' to figure out what's goin' on.
'Cause you say we don't solicit or take donations
and then I see PayPal links up on your site
where you do ask for and have a mechanism
for taking donations.
You say I have the support and cooperation
of law enforcement.
So I contact law enforcement and they say no,
he does not, he should leave this alone.
He's makin' our job harder.
He should not be doing this.
You say oh yeah, they're right behind me here.
They're supporting me.
They've been receptive with us.
That's all I can say.
With arresting individuals, with taking our chat logs
and the videos as well.
But you can read, right?
Yeah, of course.
And you can hear.
Right, right. What do you say about this?
I can see their concerns.
I definitely can.
Do you see the last line? "It would be better if Jesse
"would leave this to us, let us deal with this issue."
I'm sure that
a lot of different law enforcement agencies
would say the same.
So I just know that what we do is educate
and spread awareness
and we take a passion to it.
We've worked our butts off
and I'm darn proud of our team.
And our supporters.
So you don't care what law enforcement thinks?
I know that we're not breaking--
They say you should leave it to them.
I do care but I know that we're not breaking any laws
by doing it so.