Just when you thought paternalistic stupidity and nonsense couldn't get any worse...

Hit & Run; Police Also Plan to Stab People and Take Their Wallets to Highlight the Risk of Mugging - Reason Magazine:

"To teach motorists who leave their cars unlocked a lesson, police in Richmond upon Thames, a borough of London, have begun taking their stuff. The victims beneficiaries of these thefts educational efforts return to their cars and find that expensive items such as cameras, laptops, and leather jackets have been replaced by notes instructing them to retrieve their valuables at the police station. Not to worry, though: "If items are needed urgently," the London Times reports, "police will return the goods immediately." Which suggests that if you can't show an urgent need for, say, your computer, they'll take their own sweet time. The justification offered by Superintendent Jim Davis: "People would be far more upset if their property really was stolen.""

Jackass, it was really stolen. BY YOU.