There is no such thing as an honest person. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. YOU could be just as tempted to steal from that car, if you thought you could get away with it, as anyone else. What the police are doing is INCITING a crime to be committed, which otherwise would not have been committed. That's called "entrapment".
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.
This tells me you don't understand what "entrapment" is. A speed trap certainly is not entrapment - because the person committing the crime is ALREADY breaking the law when they are observed by police. Likewise, a fake drug buy is not entrapment because the police already have a suspect, and evidence that the perp is involved in previous and ongoing criminal activity - i.e. fake buys are part of things called "on-going investigations".
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?
All I can conclude is that you're not a very smart individual. You do realise that a person can know something about the law, and oppose police entrapment, right? And you are aware that not everybody who opposes excessive police abuse just "hates the police because they got busted", right? And the dead giveaway that you are an idiot is that you think TV cop shows reflect reality. Please. How many hayseeds out there actually think CSI:Miami is the end-all and be all of how cops and the justice system operate? I laugh at least once during every CSI episode I see, because of some blatantly incorrect detail I seee in the show. One time, they even referred to an HPLC as a mass spectrometre. Don't tell me that I'll be informed if I jsut watch more TV cop shows.
Nonsense. I don't steal other people's stuff and I expect them not to steal my stuff. Opportunity to steal plays no part in the expectation.
San Francisco had an operation similar to this going for nearly a year before the liberals shut it down. They planted cash on helpless people and watched others steal the cash. One guy was picked up twice in nine months stealing other people's money. Just try to imagine how many crimes this punk committed during that nine months.
My wife described years ago when she visited Japan that a person could place their wallet with money in it on the sidewalk and could return a week later to pick it up.
If YOU would steal my money just because you COULD, then you are part of the problem. You are turning our world into a lawless mess requiring us to spend resources protecting our property that could be used for more beneficial purposes. Your attitude impoverishes all of us.
It's people like you that are the problem. If your heart is so wicked, you may need to seek help. A thief will get killed if he steals from me. You will be one of the idiots saying "It's just stuff, you shouldn't kill over it!" He will be just as dead. You give him your stuff, I'll protect my family and my stuff. I'm one of those weirdo's that finds a wallet and returns it with the money in it because I would hope someone would do it for me. I was just raised to respect others. Kinda old fashioned huh?