My wife and I have watched this almost every time it has been on as well, and it is amazing how many sick people there are out there. Its good to see this brought to a more national level, so hopefully parents or friends of people with kids will realize what a danger this is. There are so many kids out there now that seem to have unsupervised access to the computer/internet whenever they want, and it seems like this can happen all too easily. That story Jim mentioned above is just way creepy, and he handled it great. Hopefully they can continue to get people like this off the street. We were talking how that must be such a gratifying job to be working towards getting these people the help they need, or sending them to jail. Plus, with these Dateline shows, some of the things these people have in mind is just weird - and sick - let alone the fact its with children/teens. I just don't understand it, but it is disgusting to know there are so many people like this out there.
On the other topic, yeah Dateline has really gone crazy with this. I don't think that the show (at least the Wednesday edition) has had anything but this on for a couple of months. I was commenting to the Mrs. the other night when watching this again that they just as well change the name from Dateline to "Catching Pervs" or something along those lines. They don't cover any topics anymore - not that I'm complaining, I'm glad they are working towards getting these people off the streets and keeping children safe - but some of the shows really do milk it to some extent, because it seems like I've seen the same footage of some prevs more than once on there.