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The only reason I'd report property crime to the cops is because my insurance company makes me do it as part of the claims process.

The cops don't work for us; they work for the Them with a capital 'T'. The only thing that reliably works is best-effort individual defense plus insurance for when that fails. Keep your doors locked and your backups offsite, because chances are good that if anyone breaks in, police investigators won't produce any useful results, ever.

The Warren vs. D.C. decision just confirmed what was already fact.

If you live in the U.S., it is likely that you have lived your entire life such that the number of police encounters you might rate as positive are vastly outweighed by those you saw as negative. That is certainly true for me. At least my encounters have ranged from "unhelpful" to "annoying", rather than from "useless" to "deadly".

What they need is better systems to ensure that they are actually acting in the public interest, instead of like a hostile occupying army.