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by Mediterraneo10 1838 days ago
> The police want to catch the bad guys too, but after 8 hrs has passed, it becomes virtually impossible to succeed.

There are places around the world with extremely wide rollout of CCTV cameras across the city, where the crime is recorded and police literally could trace a criminal back to his home. Yet even there police are often uninterested in doing more than providing victims of "petty" crime a copy of the police report for insurance purposes.