Law Enforcement organization calls for a Department of Justice investigation into NYPD sting operation ‘LUCKY BAG’
For Immediate Release
Press Briefing: 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care will file a formal complaint with the United States Department of Justice requesting a full investigation of NYPD sting operation “LUCKY BAG”. Operation “LUCKY BAG” involves the NYPD actually placing unattended items in public view, fully accessible to the general public and subsequently arresting individuals who retrieve the items. In addition to the request for a full federal investigation, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care is requesting that the corresponding District Attorney’s offices present the legal basis for proceeding with a criminal complaint against a person who merely retrieves an apparently abandoned item. 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care co-founder Marq Claxton states, “This enforcement operation is wrought with troubling legal questions. Are the current arrest quotas so hard to achieve that the NYPD has to create crimes? To charge a person who merely retrieves abandoned property with a crime is grossly unethical. The hunger of the NYPD to generate arrests and the decision of the District Attorney’s office to prosecute these cases places the public in harm’s way.”
Date: Wednesday- December 27, 2006
Time: 11:00am
Location: front of 147 Pierrepont Street
Presiding: 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care
Attorney Norman Siegel