Dunno how crime stats are reported in Fatum's neck of the woods,
but over here, it goes something like this:
Your unattended vehicle gets broken into, and you report it to the
cops. The cops say that since it was a non-violent crime with no
injuries, they can't be bothered to assign limited resources to
investigate it. Since the break-in wasn't investigated, it doesn't
get counted as a crime, and is therefore not included in the
municipality's crime stats. Criminal activity is consequently
underreported, and the
police chief and his henchmen hiding behind badges and guns get fat
bonuses from City Hall for "keeping the crime rate down" in the
city.
In the meantime, the police are busy writing tickets and issuing
citations for petty infractions in order to maintain the steady
flow of revenue into the city's coffers--a much more profitable
proposition than doing time-consuming and costly investigative
work. 
