The FBI has done an Operation Cross Country every October for like the last 11 years... FBI has been ramping up their pedo busts over the past couple years... prolly as a result of better technology/honeypots/backpage trolling.

It gives the impression that there are basically only a few dozen pedophile criminals in circulation every year.

That's not the impression that I get... but I do swing by this url quite often to check on all the pervs getting locked up.

https://www.justice.gov/psc/press-room

It gives the impression that there are basically only a few dozen pedophile criminals in circulation every year.

Not to me. Investigations involving child abuse should be lengthy and have a lot of caution to make sure nobody is wrongfully convicted. A false conviction like that could ruin people even if it were proven false publicly. On top of that, it's similar to the drug war. They're not as focused on the little fish as much as the big ones who produce cp or have large amounts of it. So making sure every part of their investigation is extremely thorough is important.

Its not like they have to do one or the other... the FBI has 35000+ employees

But what do those employees do and what are their qualifications? I'd put a few bucks on the fact that at least 6/10 of them or more are administrative or tech positions. A lot of them are very likely just regular jobs. They just happen to be for the FBI.

Ok regardless of the exact number, they have enough people to look into more than one thing at a time.

Ok regardless of the exact number, they have enough people to look into more than one thing at a time.

But what are the other 10 things they're looking into? Obviously some things are more important than others. For all we know something else takes priority.

For the record I don't disagree at all. Just playing ball for the conversation.

Well honestly I think this is just a ridiculous conversation to have. The FBI deals with all sorts of crime across the country, to sit and nitpick to try and figure out what exactly they're dedicating their resources on, which we obviously don't know the true limits of, is just pointless.

Well honestly I think this is just a ridiculous conversation to have.

So what? We might each have an interesting perspective on the topic. Which to me is worth talking about.

The FBI deals with all sorts of crime across the country, to sit and nitpick to try and figure out what exactly they're dedicating their resources on, which we obviously don't know the true limits of, is just pointless.

That plays into my point though. How is it fair to pass judgement on the methods and the frequency of use of said methods when they have x amount of other, and potentially more important things to deal with.

Really nobody but them know.

You don't understand how the FBI works do you OP?

Believe it or not, they work on literally thousands upon thousands of unique cases daily.

Not all of a sudden, you haven't been paying attention.