The argument didn't go well not because the cop doesn't understand but because the cop doesn't care when the bike got stolen, how it got stolen, who stole it or that it was stolen at all. I had an expensive motorbike stolen. It had a tracker so I could see exactly when it was stolen, where they took my poor bike to remove the tracker etc. I gave all this data to the cops and they did precisely nothing whatsoever abou…
The only reason to involve the cops at all in this stuff really is to get a police report for insurance purposes.
yep, I had my apartment broken into years ago and never bothered filling out a police report. It's just not useful.