Er, well, it IS entrapment, actually. The police are setting up a scenario for someone to steal something - a scenario which wouldn't have happened if the police hadn't specifically engineered it. If the police didn't set up a car full of goodies, nobody would steal from said car. The police should probably be spending their time investigating crimes that have actually happened, rather than trying to entice people into committing a crime so they can bust them then and there. Of course, entrapment is its own reward - a quick and easy bust gives more time for coffee and donuts down at the local Dunkies, without all that onerous, unnecessary "investigation" stuff to have to worry about.....
Nope, it isn't. It's done every day. They used a Corvette in Houston for years to "entrap" would be thieves, until most everybody watched the video's on the 6 o'clock news of the honest citizens, tempted beyond all hope, jumped in the convertable and hotwired it, and forever had one more line on their rap sheet. Do you honestly believe an honest person would be tempted beyond all reason to steal something, just because the door was unlocked or a window was down? By arresting these perps, you get scum off the planet with the rest of us. I'll wager it wasn't their first time.
You may not like speed traps, or stake outs, but it is NOT entrapment. Police officers offer to buy and sell drugs every day, and the girl in fishnet hose may also pull out her badge when you offer up a fifty.
You attitude either comes from lack of experience, or you got busted buying a "dime bag" in the projects and thought it was unfair. You certainly know nothing about law. If the police just sat at the donut shop waiting for crime, all they would get is the cleanup of brain matter sprayed on walls and drawing the outlines on floors. A large portion of everyday police work is done with stakeouts. Don't you watch TV?
That is an extraordinary claim. How can you possibly support it? What if it was a car belonging to a citizen and it was loaded up with the same gear? Nobody would steal from said car if the police weren't watching?