>The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on. Right, t

>The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on. Right, that's exactly the response we don't even give to all sorts of crime with a victim unless the victim is very pushy about getting a police report filed. If we're not going to at least make some token effort to enforce petty theft and vandalism laws then I see no value to society of making a point of giving that level of enforcement to even lesser crimes.