Thread: Could we do more

Originally Posted by Savage1

Nope I agree with you, we haven't been doing well at it. Burglaries are notoriously hard to solve because a few basic steps means they leave no evidence, and without evidence you're never going to solve it. Police just don't have the resources to really hammer burglaries sadly.

I highly recommend you record all of your serial numbers from laptops, TVs etc. If it can't be identified as stolen then it has to be given back to them even if it is obvious it would've been stolen, like a gangmembers property I raided recently that had 7 55+inch TVs and at least 50 powertools and 15 toolchests full of tools. Only a fraction of the tools were identified as stolen, he got to keep the rest.

That's really weird, I always see my local police posting pictures of what they believe are stolen items asking for the owners to come forward?
Or does that just mean they've taken the items and asked then have to give them back if they're not claimed?
If not, what's the difference?

Originally Posted by GravelBen

But it can provide solid evidence that the gun found is a stolen gun, not just one the same model as a stolen one. Which obviously helps the police with the whole resolving burglaries and prosecuting offenders thing we all say they haven't been doing very well (well most of us say that , maybe not Savage1).

If someone doesn't have a licence which I doubt they do if they're stealing guns they're going to be charged with that regardless, maybe if that actually meant they didn't get a smack on the hand it wouldn't matter if you gave your serial numbers to police or not.

EDIT: But I understand what you're both saying, so in a way it's helpful, but honestly makes fuck all difference after sentencing.