My parents' rural community organized a town hall with the police and their local Member of the Legislative Assembly a couple weeks back. There's a theft ring in the area that has been performing break-and-enters to steal stuff for months now. Everyone knows who it is, including the police (who once escorted someone to the property to take something back that they'd left on their lawn, and did nothing else).
The police were downright dismissive of the whole thing...just as with your (unquestionably copy-and-pasted) response there, their attitude was that if the community provided incontrovertible evidence, they might take a look, but no promises. In the meantime, just live with the pack (seriously, there's more than a dozen of them on a small property) of meth-heads repeatedly skulking around people's houses and stealing stuff.
But they can sling traffic tickets like no one's business. Outside chance they'll get involved if and when someone gets hurt, but given that they've proven less than interested in investigating outright murders, I wouldn't count on it.
