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Occam's razor:

1. The police don't know and don't care. No surprise there.

2. The police do know (holy shit!) and also are directly involved in a criminal operation (holy double shit!).

I've been shaken down by a cop for a bribe. I've had cops threaten me with arrest for photographing them in a 7-Eleven maskless in the middle of the pandemic. I have no trouble believing that there are plenty of cops directly involved in criminal operations. Real life cops aren't like the ones on TV.

Off course they know, they work (and perhaps live) in the neighborhood. They know people that have had stuff stolen from them, they might have had stuff stolen from them them selfs. Now caring, that is another issue.

I wouldn’t say “not caring” but rather “there’s 1000 other things to do and the cop doesn’t set their own agenda”

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