I had the exact opposite experience. The DAs office eventually called me to tell me that they didn't catch the perps but were able to kill the phone-number blocks which they had been using for years because no one ever reported them.
Sometimes cops are just lazy (or assholes). When thieves tried to steal the rain gutter from the appartment building on the other side of the road, the cops told me "don't expect us to rush in with sirens and screeching tyres", even after I told them the thieves were still there, in broad daylight.
Later my landlords told me they lost 50k Euros in the previous year because of stolen rain gutters.
Sometimes cops are just lazy (or assholes). When thieves tried to steal the rain gutter from the appartment building on the other side of the road, the cops told me "don't expect us to rush in with sirens and screeching tyres", even after I told them the thieves were still there, in broad daylight.
Later my landlords told me they lost 50k Euros in the previous year because of stolen rain gutters.