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To Catch a Predator is a popular American reality television show which came to a shocking halt in 2008. Find out why was the show cancelled by NBC. To Catch a Predator is a popular American reality television series, which featured on NBC. The show was hosted by Chris Hansen and was partly filmed with hidden investigative camera’s. The series aimed to catch the sexual predators, who would arrive at a sting house to have intercourse with a minor. Most episodes would typically end in an arrest. The minors were actually adults who were merely impersonating underage persons. The series debuted in November 2004.12 investigations were featured in total and they took place all across the United States. However, the series came to a shocking halt in 2008. Read on to know why. Read | Netflix's 'Money Heist' season 5 will soon head back to sets, reveals creator Álex Pina To Catch a Predator cancelled: Why did To Catch a Predator end?On several occasions To Catch a Predator, makers had been accused of creating the news, rather than reporting news. Several media portals at the time had claimed that the show was blurring the line between being a news organisation and an agency of law enforcement. However, To Catch a Predator was finally cancelled in 2008. The show had been accused of Entrapment for years, which is a practice where a law enforcement official provokes a person to commit a crime, which they would have otherwise been unlikely to commit. However, an incident that took place in 2008, that became the catalyst leading to the show’s end. Read | What time does 'Fatal Affair' release on Netflix? Find out all the details In 2008, Louis Conradt who was an assistant district attorney in Rockwall County, Texas, had shot himself after he was caught talking as well as exchanging pictures with a volunteer who had posed as a 13-year-old boy. Louis Conradt shot himself when NBC and local police barged into Conradt’s home with the camera crew. NBC and the Local Police brought the camera crew into Conradt’s home as he hadn’t shown up for a pre-scheduled meeting. Read | Confirmed! Ishaan Khatter and Tabu's 'A Suitable Boy' to release on Netflix To Catch a Predator Host, Chris HansenThe 60-year-old American Television Journalist Chris Hansen was the host of To Catch a Predator. Chris Hansen also hosts Killer Instinct on Investigation Discovery, a show which revolves around and documents homicide investigations. Chris Hansen is currently running a YouTube show named Have A Seat With Chris Hansen these days. The television journalist has over 300,000 subscribers on the platform. Read | Janhvi Kapoor's 'Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl' to release on August 12 on Netflix Where to watch To Catch a Predator?Some episodes of To Catch a Predator are occasionally aired on MSNBC, which is an American cable channel. The series was available on the free on the video hosting and sharing platform Vimeo for some time but has been removed by the show’s makers. According to the reports of a media portal currently, no steaming sources for the show are available. First Published: 17th July, 2020 20:31 IST It seems like everyone has an opinion these days, and what appears to dictate a lot of these opinions is what side of the political spectrum a person stands on. Political allegiances, for many, determine whether someone ignores crimes from one public figure or pundit or decides to brutally castigate them. The one issue that thankfully hasn't been politicized, however, is child endangerment, which was the subject of To Catch a Predator. So why did the show get canceled? Article continues below advertisement Why did 'To Catch a Predator' end? Many speculate entrapment had something to do with it.If you aren't familiar with the premise of the show, here's how a typical episode would go down: An undercover officer posing as a minor would troll forums and chat rooms looking for pedophiles. They would then set up a time and place to meet with said local predator, usually, a house they are pretending belongs to their parents. When the predator would show up, they'd meet with the officer posing as a minor, and the officer in question would typically pretend to leave the room for something. Article continues below advertisement The perp then waits for the "minor" to return and instead of the officer coming back from whatever room they entered, it's host Chris Hansen. He informs the predator that they're on a TV show and that there's local law enforcement tracking their every move. The home that they're in is rigged with cameras and usually, the perps end up getting arrested for attempting to sleep with someone who is underage.
Article continues below advertisement While there are plenty of people who are happy to see pedophiles get their comeuppances, many criticized the show for basically engaging in entrapment in order to capture said predators. However, entrapment is a very broad term, and in order to prove that an officer is entrapping someone, it has to be proven that the cop was very forceful or aggressive in order to get someone to participate in said illegal activity. So why did 'To Catch a Predator' get canceled? Was it really because of entrapment complaints?The show didn't ultimately cave to criticism about "entrapment." By going to the location of their own volition to try and sleep with someone they believed to be a minor, the perps on To Catch a Predator were freely attempting to engage in illegal activity on their own. So, it wasn't really entrapment. Article continues below advertisement
So why was the show actually canceled? The real reason is actually very tragic. In 2008, Assistant District Attorney in Rockwall County, Texas, Louis Conradt, was caught talking to a volunteer who was acting as a 13-year-old boy. Their conversation escalated, and Conradt exchanged photos with the volunteer, giving officers the incentive needed to invade his home since he didn't show up to the meeting he had originally planned with the person he believed to be a minor. Article continues below advertisement
After breaking into Conradt's house, the Assistant D.A. immediately knew that the life and career he had constructed for himself was effectively over. When authorities charged into his house with a camera crew, Conradt grabbed a gun and shot himself. Article continues below advertisement
The incident that resulted in Conradt taking his own life was a huge scandal for the show. The prospect of carrying on when there was now a very real danger of people taking their own lives on camera couldn't be ignored by production. Article continues below advertisement
The show was ultimately canceled as a result despite its stellar ratings. Host Chris Hansen has recently been feature on the Discovery Plus docu-series Onision: In Real Life and discussed his involvement with us. When was the last episode of to Catch a Predator?28 December 2007To Catch a Predator / Final episode datenull
Who from To Catch a Predator died?Louis William Conradt Jr.
He shot himself before police could apprehend him. His death and fallout ultimately resulted in the cancellation of To Catch A Predator.
How many episodes of To Catch a Predator are there?The show spanned twelve episodes and was canceled after the fallout of the suicide of Assistant DA Louis Conradt in the Murphy, Texas investigation.
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