Bait Car

2007

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5.7| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

Bait Car is an American television series airing on the truTV network.The pilot episode was called Negro Trap, but was changed after protests from the NAACP. The program retains the original name in Asian and South American syndication. The show depicts would-be car thieves caught in the act of auto theft. Police target criminals with a high-tech bait car, rigged with hidden cameras and radio trackers. Viewers are taken along for the ride from the moment the car is stolen to the thief's arrest.

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Nonureva Really Surprised!
WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
jubileeng Awful. There is nothing interesting about police setting up traps. It is one thing to go catch active criminals, and a terrible other to provoke and create criminals. We have enough crime for them to fight, rather than them enticing minorities for TV ratings. America is a joke. This shouldn't be legal. These cops afraid to catch the real bad guys. We will so much to be "entertained" that we disregard a certain level of morals and ethics to those who should uphold them.I think their focus should be on the cars that have already been stolen, rather than sitting around waiting for someone to steal a car that they have planted. What low grade type of police work is this.....smh
Christopher Papazoglow 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.
carmin0202 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
jediforce10 Bait Car has got to be one of the most boring, and most repetitive shows I have ever seen on TV. The premise is that cops set up Bait Cars in areas that criminals have been stealing them from. An episode of the series works like this. Cops plant car, criminals come and steal, cops follow, cops shut car down, criminals are caught and questioned, and repeat for 30 minutes. That is literally all there is to this show. Sure every once in a very blue moon, a citizen will report the bait car, but that's really it to variety. There's no tension at all to the chases at all either. The criminals always get caught which is good, but there's no high speed chases or stand outs or anything like that. Some have said that it helps catch criminals, but I think car thieves who watch this show will not go for the cars with keys inside, and learn to hot wire a vehicle instead. It's so pointless and it's just so stupid. I hope this show gets canned really fast.Final thoughts: Unless you want a show that will bore you to death, and has no real action or tension to it, then stay far away from Bait Car, and put on World's Dumbest instead.