Find A Wallet, Go To Jail
New York seems to be the nexus for all sorts of police state experimentation. There were those "free speech zones". The cops plan to blanket downtown with surveillance cameras. Lately the finest have been strutting their stuff to impress the tourists.
Now, welcome to "Operation Lucky Bag".
"New York undercover cops have been leaving wallets and purses around in public spots in the city, then arresting anyone who picks them up and doesn’t present them to a nearby uniformed officer. Some arrestees have otherwise clean records and say they intended to use ID inside the bags to notify the rightful owners. Putting money inside the bags didn’t lead to serious enough charges, in the coppers’ view, so they began salting them with live American Express cards so that the finders could be charged with grand larceny, with four years behind bars.
The NYPD revealed Wednesday its Operation Lucky Bag stings have snared nearly 300 people - many of whom had no rap sheet before they fell for the ruse.
Since the start of the year, there have been 100 arrests as a result of the decoy operations, in which an undercover officer “drops” a wallet, iPod or cell phone in a subway station and cops pounce after it’s picked up."
Hmm, where have we seen something similar?
US snipers 'bait' Iraqis
"At the urging of Pentagon experts in special operations, US military snipers operating in Iraq are "baiting" Iraqis by scattering items like detonation cord, plastic explosives and ammunition and then ambushing and killing those who pick them up, the Washington Post reported Monday."
Now, welcome to "Operation Lucky Bag".
"New York undercover cops have been leaving wallets and purses around in public spots in the city, then arresting anyone who picks them up and doesn’t present them to a nearby uniformed officer. Some arrestees have otherwise clean records and say they intended to use ID inside the bags to notify the rightful owners. Putting money inside the bags didn’t lead to serious enough charges, in the coppers’ view, so they began salting them with live American Express cards so that the finders could be charged with grand larceny, with four years behind bars.
The NYPD revealed Wednesday its Operation Lucky Bag stings have snared nearly 300 people - many of whom had no rap sheet before they fell for the ruse.
Since the start of the year, there have been 100 arrests as a result of the decoy operations, in which an undercover officer “drops” a wallet, iPod or cell phone in a subway station and cops pounce after it’s picked up."
Hmm, where have we seen something similar?
US snipers 'bait' Iraqis
"At the urging of Pentagon experts in special operations, US military snipers operating in Iraq are "baiting" Iraqis by scattering items like detonation cord, plastic explosives and ammunition and then ambushing and killing those who pick them up, the Washington Post reported Monday."
posted by nolocontendere at 8:51 PM
5 Comments:
that HAS to be entrapment, which is illegal
Wow...
That IS entrapment!
Entrapment! It used to be considered illegal and unethical, then they started using it to snare known criminals, now, they're using it to create criminals.
What's next? Minority Report? Arresting people because they are considered potential criminals?
This is a msot obvious flagrant abuse of power, why doesn't the Justice league do something? Lost their balls?
We're all criminals now in the eyes of the law and we have to prove ourselves innocent. We're at the mercy of the authorities, their minions and security forces who'll prove that fact whenever they feel like it. That's the innate nature of fascism.
They were discussing this on Stern last week. Evidently, a foreign visitor picked up one of these faux wallets with the intention of contacting the owner. He was subsequently picked up by the cops who discovered his Visa had expired.
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