It's not so New York, it's so New York government.

Don't they have some pedicabs to harass?

It's not "so New York". It's "Boston South".

Might be fun to sit in the subway stations and call the cops and report a suspicious bomb-like package when they drop them off. Isn't that entrapment, anyways?

What's up with NYC and bad ideas these days ? Driving to work this morning, I got to hear about how the NYC City Council decided to ban metal baseball bats since they are too dangerous for kids looking to field the ball. Sheesh.

I agree with meep. Complete wastes of time and money by the government are as totally New York as stickball and street fairs.

I can't even figure out what is illegal about it. Finders Keepers has the force of law, no?

That sting operation is completely retarded and i'm pretty sure it has been stopped once the cases got to court and hit the media.
The NYPD is completely driven by numbers and crime stats. This is a result of that.
This article sums up part of the numbers game.

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=28898

"The source suggested that Lucky Bag was cooked up by recently promoted police Transit Chief James Hall to boost his division's arrest numbers. "You don't get promoted through the ranks unless your numbers are better than the other guy's," the source said.

An NYPD spokesman denied the claim."

Legally no crime is committed. The finder has superior title to forgotten property against all others except the true owner. How do the cops prove the "perp" wasn't taking the property to transit authorities or trying to locate the true owner?

mayor mike strikes again. totally agree w/frozen caveman. what crime is actually committed? wouldn't that be considered entrapment?

I agree. It serves no useful purpose for NYC to use this tactic. As they say, why not spend the energy catching real criminals.

Try again Big Apple.

This is ridiculous. Why are they fooling around with this kind of nonsense when there's people sleeping in the subway?