https://www.reddit.com/r/Ethics/comments/ke72tt/is_honeypotting_unethical/
created by cajjsh on 16/12/2020 at 10:49 UTC
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Comment by justanediblefriend at 16/12/2020 at 12:04 UTC
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Try /r/Advice.
Comment by ClearCloudChris at 16/12/2020 at 11:05 UTC
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Are we talking motorbikes? If motorbike it will almost definitely not be taken to someones house. They usually take it to somewhere like an underground car park where your GPS will lose signal until the batteries die, or hidden somewhere locally to check whether it has a tracker or not (the idea being that if someone comes to collect their bike from where they have left it, then it's being tracked).
Now down to the ethics - I think you have a moral justification for it. From my personal view, police have neither the resources to do this themselves alongside the red tape they'd have to cut through to get this kind of operation approved. If all you are doing is assisting in the retribution of somebody commuting one of the most basic of immoral acts (taking something of somebody else's that objectively does not belong to them) then I can only see this as a positive outcome depending on your ethical stances on crime & punishment