Police are indeed useless. I had a credit card theft and the police didn’t do a thing. I know it was an employee at HP who did it because charges started showing up right after we made an online purchase through their home website and I found out the IP was in CA. Ironically, they bought several hundred dollars from Apple. Neither the police nor Apple would do anything. BTW, I will never be a customer of HP or Apple.
In the place I used to live, the official police position was that property crime was merely an insurance matter. They haven’t the least bit of interest in catching anybody. In fact, they prefer to take reports over the phone, rather than have to come to the crime site. Cops today are mostly unionized goons. Utterly worthless.