Women tricked by British undercover seducer-cops who pretended to love them have written a book about their experience, and the cops' tactics of lies.

The most shocking thing I learned from the article was not _how_ the cops went about this, but what purposes they did it for — such as, helping McDonalds sue environmentalists for leaflets that criticized it. (Most of the criticisms were ultimately found to be true.) Those environmentalists were not coming even close to a breach of the peace. The police have no business getting involved in such a case, not even if they limited themselves to _methods_ that are totally legitimate.

In effect, the thug/trickery department was serving as a tool to boost the power of big business. Meanwhile, it disregarded the sometimes violent right-wing extremists.