probably woulkd have asked why they would attend this womans house for a non crime, but they won't attend a burglary
shoplifting is barely even a crime now., you'd think we live in some utopia where the police have nothing to do anymore but intimidate people for online comments
Official government figures show that nearly 76% of burglaries went unsolved in 2023
and they think this is a good waste of time?
Nearly 1.9m violent or sexual crimes in England and Wales were closed without a suspect being caught or charged in the year to June 2024 – about 89% of all offences given an outcome, official figures show.
a true utopia, at least we know what the priorities are.
In case you have some problems understanding the difference between various crimes.
Harassment is a crime against the person (always more serious than property crimes), and is known to lead to more serious crimes including murder in extreme cases. The police have repeatedly been in trouble for not taking them seriously, and on multiple occasions the likes of local councillors have been attacked by people that made threats online. IIRC "online comments" is putting it very mildly in some cases, and the police don't know unless they actually look into the complaint.
My guess is that this complaint probably took less an hour to close out, whilst making sure that the force did all the legally required steps to check the validity of it.
Burglary is a crime against property, in the priority queue property crimes are lower than ones that can lead to people being hurt. It's one of the reasons it tends to be idiots or organised gangs who do things like break into a house whilst carrying a weapon or threaten the occupants, as the moment they do that it pushes the priority of the crime up and means more resources will be allocated as the risk of harm is higher.
See also that most burglaries leave very little evidence from the criminal, as all but the most stupid criminals these days know about things like finger prints, DNA and cameras, so they'll wear generic clothing, cheap gloves and hide their faces, which means that there is very little point in the police attending except to do something like take a statement unless the offence is reported as it happens.
For an example, going back a few years I had someone try to force my window open (whilst I was watching TV with the light off), the police did attend and as apparently I was the second or third house he'd tried it on in the area in the last hour, but even with my description and them arriving quickly there was no usable evidence.
In my case the police were on scene within about 15 minutes, I was able to tell them the direction the scumbag had gone, and they did fingerprints, unfortunately 15 minutes whilst a very good response time (especially given our town has no police station), is enough time for someone on foot to get halfway across the town.
Meanwhile a guy that scammed a little old lady near me was IIRC id'd quite quickly as in order to do his scam he had to appear in person, in daylight, and he changed into his scam outfit in clear view of my CCTV camera (he pulled his car up in front of our house, around the corner from his victim, and it had a passenger and a driver), I never heard much back about that, but the officer that attended looked at the footage (and took a copy), we worked out the numberplate and was very much "oh it's him, nice to see him with his family this time" and seemed quite pleased, especially as it was correctly timestamped etc.
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