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We’re more a country of guidelines than laws, really.

There was “operation lucky bag” where the NYPD would purposefully leave a backpack, and arrest people who picked it up

https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/02/03/nypds-operation-lucky-bag-resurfaces-in-manhattan-blasted-by-judge-and-public-defenders-for-entrapping-innocents-into-an-arrest/

There’s other coverage out there too.

The police are not a force for good.

I’ve got the hubris to think I’d be cool about it. Starts with billionaires and Republican leadership. Ends with “people who park in bike lanes”.

This was my first thought. Are they trying to pull some bs like that. But also the wsj is a disgrace