[w0mbat]

If there was an easy mechanism to temporarily hand over tracking of stolen tags/iPhones/iPads to police, with the nice ultra wideband tracking that gives an arrow and direction, police would go and get a lot of stuff back. The police love low-hanging fruit and easy arrests.

[nemothekid]

You can already do this today with iPhones and iPads and the police won’t do anything

[filleduchaos]

Chasing down petty thieves is not the low hanging fruit most police departments go for.

[jessaustin]

They'd be interested if drug activity in that house were reported. Then they could raid the house, and keep whatever goods weren't broken or burned in the raid for themselves.