Jock Coats alerted me to a strange English crime, “theft by finding.” In one recent case, a student was arrested and charged with “theft by finding” for going to a police station to hand in a mobile phone he had found in the street. As the student later said, “I thought I was doing the right thing and had it thrown back in my face. I wouldn’t go to the police in future. All I was doing was the honest thing. It was a shocking experience.” (As another example, a local supermarket had a power outage, and bagged up lots … Continue reading A British Lesson on Trusting the Police