Comment by poszlem

You will surely see some people here saying that the broken windows theory has been debunked (I used to be one of them), so that's why I did not use that phrase, but at the very least I don't think the equation for pursuing the thieves is "the phone is worth 1000 quid, the investigation is 2000, therefore it's not worth it". I think we are too heavily discounting people's lost trust in Police effectiveness that happens because of stories like that.