Josh told papers that the PR director told him that the force has 2400 reports of theft a month and is only able to conduct 3 investigations. (from the article

Josh told papers that the PR director told him that the force has 2400 reports of theft a month and is only able to conduct 3 investigations. (from the article on Consumerist http://consumerist.com/2011/06/laptop-thief-caught-after-victim-blogs-pictures-of-him.html http://consumerist.com/2011/06/laptop-thief-caught-after-vic...) The Oakland PD no longer responds to property crimes. This is a stopgap policy they started after they lost a large number of officers (100?) recently due to budget cuts.