So i just did a quick search and found that in 2010 Toronto had about 12,000 Break and Enters with roughly 6000 officers city wide and a clearance rate of 27%, i was recently watching the news and learned that most crimes such as these are solved using 222Tips and with information given by the public to the cops. To me it is very rational to believe that the police cannot do their job without the assistace of the public. http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/publications/files/reports/2010statsreport.pdf
So if your attitude is to not assist the police than i'm sure your fellow neighbours, who may have seen the person who broke into your home, should be justified in thinking the same way and not giving the information he has to you or the police.
Personally i would rather people help stop idiots from doing stupid **** then to be complacent in their idiocy.
That would be 2 b&e cases for each cop and they only solve .5 of them in a year. Wow, our cops are hard at work! Now cue all the cop nuthuggers explaining how they all don't investigate crimes and how 5,999 of them are needed to sit at the side of the road all day with a radar gun.