WOODLAND HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A viral video involving Los Angeles police on busy Ventura Boulevard is sparking conversation online.

Police are calling it an "enforcement operation" involving jaywalking pedestrians, but it's not the jaywalkers who police are going after.

Many viewers in the comments of ABC7's social media posts are calling it "entrapment," asking if the enforcement operation even does anything to enhance safety.

"The cops are hiding in parking lots and hiring people to walk across the street," an onlooker in Woodland Hills said in the now-viral video that's sparking debate online.

The video shows an LAPD pedestrian enforcement detail targeting drivers who failed to yield for those crossing the street outside of a crosswalk on Tuesday.

"Whoever passes them, the

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