You can make big reductions in crimes of opportunity by making them just a little more difficult.
For instance, laws requiring bike helmets have big impacts on bike theft.
If this is implemented in the US, and enough privacy safeguards are put in place, I'm sure it'll spread to the EU and then the rest of the world.
This already exists in Australia and has for years. It's as simple as getting a police report done and ringing your phone company to get the IMEI blocked.
We already have it in the rest of the world - in Australia since the beginning of last decade. I'm confused why it has taken this long for the United States to implement.
This has existed in the EU for some years now. In practice, it means phones are still stolen, and moved outside the EU, mainly to North Africa.