Posted on 12/09/2007 1:24:33 PM PST by Dan Evans
But the fellow stung in this incident was given no such chance.
Who is the idiot who came up with this plan?
I once found a wallet at a public parking lot in Anchorage across from the Captain Cook Hotel. It was filled with money and cards. I carried it with me to my conference, where I called the police and waited for them to come and get the wallet.
This kind of entrapment as reported is stupid beyond words. I would have picked up the wallet and waited until I got back to my apartment, then called the cops. So I would have been arrested for theft. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
There are so many things wrong with this statement, coming from the New York chapter of the ACLU. Given the amount of effort the ACLU has made to encourage people not to be Christian, I wonder if Donna even knows what a Samaritan was, or if it was Jesus who told us we should try to be a good one.
What moron of a cop thought this lamebrain idea up? Exactly how does this deter crime?
One, who need to get his arrest numbers up.
I’ve seen episodes of Cops on TV where they conduct “sting” operations using decoy “drunks”.
if it was down in the subway than the cop must have been a transit cop
Somewhere out there must be an underemployed lawyer or unemployed citizen that could use some entertainment. We need a counter-sting. A well placed video camera, microphone, and several printed copies of the law/statute/legal precedent involved should do the job.
The NY city/transit police know that someone finding lost merchandise has 10 days to return it. This is simply an attempt to circumvent just cause. It’s time somebody called them on it, and made them pay dearly enough that they stop.
There must be somebody out there that needs some recognition (and a nice settlement).
This was a crime stats bust, pure and simple. Just to get the arrest numbers up. I say this as a retired cop.
"Now they [the wallets] contain real American Express Cards, issued under pseudonyms to the Police Department. Theft of a credit card is grand larceny, a Class E felony, so anyone cops believe has the intention of stealing the decoy wallet or bag could face up to four years behind bars."
Geez, why don't they use a little imagination and stick some kiddie porn in with the Amex cards, so they can get a twofer?
Everything. There isn’t anything right with them.
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