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Why the heck can't the police help with the recovery, and also prosecution of grand theft?

• markbao 16y ago
  I wouldn't want them to. Police have more important things to deal with than stolen laptops.
  • pistoriusp 16y ago
    I agree with what you're doing, but I do think you're entirely wrong on this point. That's exactly one of the reasons why the police exists.
    • harshpotatoes 16y ago
      Or at least in a perfect world with unlimited budgets, that's how it would work.
  • lancefisher 16y ago
    Crime (including theft of expensive equipment) should be prosecuted. It does more harm to society and the perpetrator if you let it go. If people start to think their are no consequences for stealing laptops, there will be more stolen, then more serious crime can follow. One thing this guy has going for him is that he did return the laptop to you. I think he deserves a little credit for that.
  • Tycho 16y ago
    In the sense that 'the police don't have the resources to track down small items lifted in public places by unknown persons, and there are victims of greater crimes to tend to' you are perhaps right, but I think that all changes when you actually supply the name and address of the offender and incontrovertible proof that he's guilty. Although if you did give them that information and they still couldn't pursue it, there's not much else you can do (except, of course, bang your head against the wall in frustration).
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