"If your shed's been broken into, your bike's stolen, your vehicle's broken into and there's no witnesses, there's no CCTV and there's no opportunity for forensics, we'll be screening that out really quickly."
Hasn't it always been a bit like that though? I remember the police basically just giving me a form to fill in for my car being broken into and the radio taken and that was decades ago. And we had no forensics people out at a low-value burglary when I was a student (decades and a few more ago).
There really isn't any point in officers spending lots of time on something that doesn't have enough evidence to lead to lead anywhere. I would have thougt the best they can do with that sort of crime is record it and then use the data to target preventative methods effectively.