I am a police officer, these types of crime are at epidemic level. Constant.
It’s not that the police don’t care, it’s that these crimes are nigh on impossible to identify offenders for.
Offenders tend to wear masks or clothing over their faces which means no amount of doorbell footage or cctv footage will give us an identity.
Even when their faces are not obscured, doorbell footage and CCTV generally tends to be such poor quality that we can’t get an identity anyway, we do not have technology to make footage better despite what TV would have people believe.
So the only way to identify offenders tends to be based on forensics, and unless there’s obvious blood or bodily fluids left at the scene, forensic units won’t examine each vehicle broken into because they’d never do anything else.
They get into vehicles by intercepting the signal from the fob, so doesn’t matter if you routinely lock your car.
Best thing to do is keep your car keys/fob in a Faraday pouch, which stops the signal being intercepted.
Keep NOTHING in your vehicle overnight that you’d care about being stolen, and if you can, leave glove boxes open and empty And nothing at all visible so if one off these scum bags looks in the window they can see there’s nothing worth taking and will move on to the next one.
They are career criminals, that’s why they’re not in bed. Because rather than earn an honest living, they choose to take from others, it’s easier to do that when most of the world is sleeping and vulnerable.