{"id":336,"date":"2007-12-13T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/12\/13\/operation-lucky-bag\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:10:51","slug":"operation-lucky-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/12\/13\/operation-lucky-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"operation lucky bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/360-lucky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143467008709751730\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/361-lucky.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/28\/nyregion\/28about.html?_r=3&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin\">times<\/a> <\/em>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2007\/12\/06\/2007-12-06_nypd_says_operation_lucky_bag_stings_hav.html\"><em>daily news<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>are reporting on a subway sting operation by the new york police department. in my opinion, <em>operation lucky bag <\/em>reeks of entrapment &#8212; law enforcement practices that induce citizens to commit crimes they would otherwise have had no intent to commit. judge for yourself:<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD revealed Wednesday its Operation Lucky Bag stings have snared nearly 300 people &#8211; 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 &#8220;drops&#8221; a wallet, iPod or cell phone in a subway station and cops pounce after it&#8217;s picked up. Police said 58 of those busted had rap sheets, while 42 had clean records. There was a similar breakdown in 2006, when 188 were arrested. The NYPD said 101 had prior arrests while 87 did not.<\/p>\n<p>worse still, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/28\/nyregion\/28about.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=print\">good samaritans<\/a> appear to be caught up in the sweep. isn&#8217;t there enough <em>actual <\/em>crime on the trains? if predatory robbery (or even pickpocketing or pursesnatching) is a big problem in this setting, i could reasonably imagine, say, a decoy operation in which officers pose as attractive targets. but dropping a bag and arresting the rider who picks it up? that&#8217;s just crimemaking.<\/p>\n<p>-via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">boingboing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the times and daily news are reporting on a subway sting operation by the new york police department. in my opinion, operation lucky bag reeks of entrapment &#8212; law enforcement practices that induce citizens to commit crimes they would otherwise have had no intent to commit. judge for yourself: The NYPD revealed Wednesday its Operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}