"Our trucks were robbed last June at Oil Slick. We stay at Buddy every year and have had zero issues there.
Never leave any valuables in your vehicles ever.. we had some towels lunches an old pair of sandles etc taken. It's a shame local law enforcement seem to do absolutely nothing about this problem.."
The math doesn't work. Think about it. If you left your doors unlocked & windows down, they probably only too the stuff, and didn't break anything. So, the total value of stuff stolen might've added up to...under $30?
Now, to catch the thief, and considering there's potential for violence, so 2 cops, employed for base salary plus benefits package, assigned to extended duty running a sting operation, running several shifts for each perpetrator they catch. That's gonna cost a whole lot more than $30.
But wait, there's more! If & when they catch a thief, there's no jail space to hold him, court costs & all the due process costs run way, way more than $30, and that's if there's a conviction, when the victim will be leaving the island in a few days and won't be around for any trial. If a conviction somehow happened anyway, I imagine the costs of incarceration would be big.
All this to stop a $30 theft.
But wait, there's more! If that happened, that tourist would tell his friends, and they'd post on internet forums and talk at dive shops, and tourists would get the idea that more effective law enforcement would probably drastically cut back on petty theft from rental trucks, leading to more tourists violating the current recommended practices & leaving more valuables in rental trucks, or with doors locked & windows up, providing a greater incentive for the crime we abhor!
All this on a poor island that can't even get a handle on break-ins.
The logic does not work. Even if they didn't have bigger issues to deal with, it still probably wouldn't work.
Richard.
