Safety First - You can try this at home

Depends on the area and the report. If someone reports a crime has already occurred and there is no danger or risk anymore they put it as a very low priority (they aren't going to speed over for a ransacked house). Now, that being said I've lived in places that the pizza doesn't deliver after dark b/c they get robbed and yeah, cops don't show up unless someone is getting actively murdered. It sucks, but you don't usually call the cops anyway, you call a cousin that takes care of such things.

And people expect us to trust the government.