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'Predator hunter' groups work across Michiana, but officials say they do more harm than good


The videos follow a familiar format.
The setting is a public space, often the parking lot of a mall or supermarket. The person holding the cell phone camera approaches the person believed to be meeting a minor for sex, and then the confrontation starts.
“What are you doing here today, Jimmy, come on, man! You come out here to meet a 15-year-old girl?” begins one such video, posted to Facebook last week by the group Bikers Against Predators.
In the video, “Jimmy” proceeds to stand outside the arcade area of the University Park Mall in Mishawaka repeating “That was stupid of me,” as members of the group berate him and inform him that he has been messaging with them and not an actual 15-year-old. ....

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