The WTF files: Cops to grab unlocked stuff from cars in East Rock area — for safekeeping

http://www.nhregister.com/article/NH/20151101/NEWS/151109969

If your computer is missing from your unlocked car, it may not be an opportunistic thief who snatched it.
That important electronic device could be in the New Haven police property room, retrieved by your local walking beat officer.
Stymied as to what to do to get residents to take seriously repeated police warnings to lock their vehicles and not leave valuables in them, Lt. Herbert Sharp said they are going to try something new in his policing district.
Sharp, manager for the East Rock neighborhood, said confiscating goods that are invitations to thieves is one of the six exceptions in Connecticut law to the requirement for a search warrant.
“It’s called a caretaker,” he said of the initiative he wants to implement this month.
“When it comes to a car, if there is something in plain view that is of value, and the car is unlocked, law enforcement can go into the car and retrieve that item and take it into the property (room) and place it where it is safe,” Sharp told residents at the most recent meeting of the East Rock Management Team.

You enter my private property without a warrant and you will be the subject of a civil lawsuit that will make the supreme court blush...Make a note of it.