Is Giuliani still mayor?

Because this is right up his alley:

"Should New Yorkers be arrested for picking up an unattended bag and not turning it in? The New York Police Department has a sting operation to do just that, but one couple caught up in it says they were doing nothing wrong. NY1’s Criminal Justice reporter Solana Pyne filed the following report.

For Aquarius Cheers and Kia Graves, it started as a routine trip to Target Thursday night to buy their daughter diapers. They were waiting for a train at 59th Street. “I look around and I end up seeing this bag,” recalled Cheers. “It was a Verizon bag. I took it, and look inside of it. I saw there was some electronics. Next thing I know the train is coming.” They grabbed the bag and rushed for the train. "I was like ‘just bring the bag,’ not thinking twice about it,” said Graves. “I was thinking ‘oh we could find a receipt in there,’ and possibly go back to the phone company Verizon." Then a team of undercover officers grabbed Cheers and charged him with petty larceny.

The NYPD calls the sting Operation Lucky Bag, where officers plant a bag and arrest those who take it and do not turn it into a uniformed officer posted nearby."

I'm not even going to get into the fact that this is obviously entrapment, but the entire exercise seems to me to be a waste of time. New York City, and the NYPD feels the need to catch people who, what? Find a bag and then don't immediately return it? As a New Yorker here's the rule; you leave something in the street, subway or train platform, it's gone--you snooze, you lose, and if you do happen to get it back then lucky you. Just be glad you lost it and it wasn't taken from you by some dude who'll get away because I'm getting arrested after picking up a sack full of cigarettes and porn that Officer Putz left for me to find. This is a complete mismanagement of resources, the equivalent of having a teacher assigning you an hours worth of long division to do in class during fourth period of fifth grade. Crap like this is only needed to keep up the already inflated police population in the city. Furthermore the arrests probably are illegal since:

"A Brooklyn judge threw out one Lucky Bag arrest, pointing out that the city's personal property law gives people ten-days to turn in found property worth more than $20."

Pretty soon they'll be giving out free chewing tobacco and arresting people for spitting on the street. Operation Waste of Time.