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You get arrested for simply walking away with the 'misplaced' bag. Because it contains a platinum AmEx card, they can bump it up to a felony. They won't wait to see if you intend on trying to find the owner on your own, and this is entrapment.
The 'bait car' theory doesn't fly with me simply because with a bait car, the act of entering the vehicle and driving off with it proves an intent to steal the car. It's not so easy to prove intent with a purse laying there. Purses get misplaced, cars don't. Nobody takes a car home, checks the registration, and then call the owner to say, "hey, I found your car sitting at the corner of 125th and Lenox. Where do you want to meet me to pick it up?"
In any case, if the police have the manpower and time to sit around and wait for somebody to pick up a bag they left laying there, then they have manpower and time to do more productive things, like getting involved in community affairs programs so people can actually trust the police.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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