You think the police have adequate resources to solve package theft? I’m sorry, what? That’s ridiculous. Here’s the 2023 stats for SF:
Porch thefts: 25,000 Cops: 2000
Obviously not all of those cops are on duty simultaneously, let’s assume they do a 12 hour shift every single day: they would have 25 porch thefts each to solve!
This isn’t a US centric phenomenon either: 70,000 cell phones were stolen in London last year.
Surely you don't think all 25k porch thefts are performed by 25k individual people?
I’m sure they’re not but we’re talking about the statistic for unsolved crimes not uncaught criminals.
The point is you don't have to catch 25k people nor solve 25k individual crimes one by one.
You have to catch the much smaller number of people who are committing 25k crimes. One porch pirate will steal lots of packages.