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Originally Posted by GTO
There are cameras everywhere. Businesses, gas stations. I bet if the cops really wanted to investigate, they would check all the businesses around there, around all the intersections on the roads that lead away from there.
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In many cases, the cops aren't going to be highly motivated to investigate something like this. The owner has insurance (or *should* have), they'll get reimbursed from the insurance agency, and unless it appears there is an epidemic theft ring operating in the area, the cops are going to be busy with higher priority tasks. That's just the reality these days.
Most businesses have really crappy video cameras, the odds of them capturing any details are minimal at best. Exporting video for evidence or further investigation is also a nightmare 99% of the time, which reduces the incentive to go around asking for security camera footage for a case like this. It's not a big enough deal to warrant the effort. You might be able to get some idea of the time of the incident and the tow vehicle used, and if you were really lucky the police would recognize it as being associated with other thefts.
On a side note, in several larger cities there are efforts under way to have businesses register their security camera views with local PD and provide a way for the PD to easily access the cameras remotely to make investigations easier. As you might imagine though, people are (rightly) hesitant to sometimes give police ungated access into their cameras.
Our boat isn't stored on a trailer, and it's not a very high-value or high-profile vessel anyway. If I had something like this boat I'd certainly make sure the trailer was locked and install a motion-activated tracking/alerting system. There are lots of them out there these days.