Removing the veil of stupidity from the Mount Pleasant PD with Detective Kenny Clark

The last thing we need is fearmongering in the media, but local level police agencies are frequently cited as authoritites on crime statistics even when most beat cops and detectives need little more than a high school diploma to be employed. Thus, local police are prone to say the dumbest thinfs, like Kenny Clark of the Mount Pleasant PD in SC. 

There's more to the article that is bad, especially ICAC using junk science like polygraphs to intimidate suspects, but this quote is especially noteworthy for 

https://www.postandcourier.com/moultrie-news/news/removing-the-veil-of-secrecy-from-sexual-crimes-against-children/article_0059c3f8-3c9d-11eb-893e-a7376a7bfc31.html

“Anywhere a child is, there’s a predator. If there’s a child (internet) platform where children are known to be, then you can bet someone is hunting them,” said Detective Kenny Clark of the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

“None of us want to think our neighbor would do anything to harm our kids or anything like that, but in all actuality it happens,” Clark said. “If we put something in the media, of an arrest this week, next week nobody’s thinking about it until the next one.”