Ask HN: Stolen iPhone. Can see on Find My iPhone. What should I do next?

I have no input of my own, but I found this (http://tipsfor.us/2008/11/01/what-do-i-do-if-my-iphone-is-lo...) on Google.

Well if you have sensitive information on it, lock it, wipe it, and go buy a new one because the crook will probably realize you're on to them and destroy the phone.

If you're more concerned with just getting the phone back, get the police to retrieve it since you know the location.

Queens? I just found an iPhone a few days ago, and I'm in Astoria. Dunno if it's yours.

Goto cops?

Yes. Why wouldn't you do this?

I did. Couldn't help much.

Why wouldn't they help? If you know the location of stolen property, wouldn't they chase after it for you? There have been a ton of posts on here about people losing their laptops and retrieving them with police assistance because they were able to locate it.

Not NYPD. Most they could do is give me a report I can use with my insurance...if I had insurance.

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