Bait Car

It goes like this: Assemble your team of cops, take your team and your Bait Car to an area as heavily Black and/or Latino as you can find, drop the car off while making it as obvious as possible that it's unlocked and the keys are in it, and wait for the dumb-ass. Once in a great while that dumb-ass will be other than Black or Latino, but it's obvious that AREAS that are primarily Black and/or Latino is the overriding prerequisite for deciding where to drop the car. You'll watch the featured city's PD "set up" in supposedly "where the car thefts are most-often occurring", but almost never include (for the show,at least) an operation in any high-theft area that ISN'T populated primarily by Blacks and/or Latinos. The show appears to be trying to advance the premise that us White folks aren't committing these crimes as much, by as much as possible avoiding placing the bait where us White folks could see it.

This show was so good ... it did not target anyone except for criminals. Hopefully law enforcement still use this technique to capture criminals.. sad that some reviews lie and claim it targeted anyone behind criminals.

Many of the episodes show someone in distress emergency situations... they would frantically leave car unlocked or running ... and leave quickly.. it usually did not take long for a low life criminal to then attempt to steal the vehicle.... It is sad that some people feel stealing is only way .... It would be so awesome if someone could revive this show ...

None of the episodes targeted any specific race .. it only targeted criminals regardless of anything.

I don't understand why people have given this show such a low rating. Honestly, I think "Bait Car" might be even better than "Cops", and I'm a big fan of "Cops". These shows teach you that reality shows can be made of truly real-life moments in reality, and not just of stupid games playing around with people's lives.

I think "Bait Car" has some really memorable, and comical moments. One classic moment is where the girls take the bait car, get trapped in it and scream "oh my god! we're in a stolen vehicle!" Well, duh it's stolen, you stole it!

"Bait Car" really shows you how many people just can't say "no" to a simple car with keys and an open door. And every once in a while, there's a nice ending with someone being honest and locking the car up so it doesn't get stolen, or calling the police to (unknowingly) report their own car.

i don't understand why cops got nothing better to do than try to set people up all the time its pretty sad that their setting people up with perfect opportunities to steal a car i mean come on now.. yes their thieves their setting up but seriously don't we have anything better to do than putting people in jail for car theft. how bout get their lazy asses busy and start looking for some of these missing kids and investigate real crimes.. car theft although its a common thing the point is its not a person to person crime its a property crime its not like car jacking or robbery its just pathetic were putting people in jail for car theft to crowd the prison systems for car theft when these people are obviously broke to begin with and will never pay their debt to society back for this crime

Bait car is practically the same episode every week and it never gets old. The police set a car in an area and wait for a thief to steal the car. Once the thief has driven a block or two the cut the power to the car and arrest the thief.