Only a quarter of the sheep was eaten, and everyone in the room had at least one story to tell about a stolen electric bike, either their own or someone they knew.

If you averaged it out over the years, the number wasn't surprising. There were more people who lost their bikes during the era of regular bicycles.

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However, the total number was still quite high.

"Did the video surveillance downstairs capture the theft?" Jiang Yuan asked, slightly concerned as he ate the sheep.

"It did, but we reported it and still couldn't find the person. By the way, can you find someone to do facial recognition?" Jiang Yongxin, who ran a car wash downstairs, was a young man and immediately thought of new technology.

Jiang Yuan looked blank. "I don't know. I haven't seen facial recognition at the bureau."

Jiang Yongxin was a bit disappointed. "The conditions in our county are still too poor."

"Even in the city, there's no facial recognition. With the hundreds of thousands of people flowing through domestic train stations and airports, when would facial recognition even be used?" Jiang Yuan was helpless.

"But it's available overseas. Can't we learn to make it in China?" Jiang Yongxin didn't believe it.

"In China, we're still working on gait recognition...we don't even have that. Forget it, even if we did, we couldn't use it to find your electric bike." Jiang Yuan dipped his lamb into the chili sauce, feeling a bit nauseous.

For the police, solving electric bike theft cases was more troublesome than solving regular theft cases. This was because electric bikes were like stolen goods that could move and carry the suspect. Disposing of them was simpler than regular stolen goods, and committing the crime and leaving the scene was generally faster. If the operation was careful enough, it was basically impossible to catch the perpetrator.

Even if the perpetrator was caught, it was difficult to secure evidence and successfully prosecute them.

In fact, after reporting a theft case, most regular theft cases had no follow-up. This could be proven with a simple example: even if a police officer's own phone was stolen, they would simply buy a new one to use.

Furthermore, the attitude of regular people towards theft cases was different from that of the police.

Regular people hoped to recover their losses and punish the thief. Therefore, their primary goal was to find their lost property, with finding the perpetrator being secondary. But for the police to solve a case, their first goal was to secure evidence, followed by finding the suspect, then successfully prosecuting them, and finally finding the lost property.

If it were a homicide or a serious crime, securing evidence, which was the first goal, would barely qualify as a satisfactory job. If the suspect couldn't be caught, then the next step would be to find a way to track them down. Some suspects would flee the scene after committing a crime, and it was impossible to arrest them.

However, in the case of a theft, simply securing evidence was clearly insufficient. Not only would the victim be dissatisfied, but the police themselves would be dissatisfied as well. It was like spending one or two days, or even two or three days, doing useless work.

In a theft case, the police had to achieve the first three goals at once, which were securing evidence, arresting the suspect, and prosecuting them, in order to barely qualify as completing the job. But even if they found the lost property and completed all four goals, the police's gains from the operation were still minimal. They had only solved a case worth a few thousand yuan, arrested one or a few petty criminals, and recovered a few thousand yuan in losses.Therefore, in a small county where police forces are always scarce, theft cases have always been low-profile cases. Only when the number of reported cases increases sharply for a period of time and a gang crime or a series of cases is discovered, will the police be slightly more active. The premise is that there have been no new homicide cases or other major cases recently.

For the police officers directly involved in the case, theft cases are not only unproductive but also annoying.

Because not only do they not value such cases, but other colleagues in the bureau also look down on them. So, they have to queue up to do fingerprinting, ask for help from the on-site investigators, and rely solely on themselves to watch videos. Everywhere they go, they are the lowest priority...

And yet, they can't complain. Complaining is being immature - the fingerprint experts are working on homicide cases, robbery cases, and arson cases. You want them to compare fingerprints for a newly reported electric bike theft case? Do you want to cut in line?

Fortunately, Jiang Yuan knows how to do fingerprinting and on-site investigation...

For electric bike theft cases, having these two skills is enough.

People who are both smart and cautious and have strong execution skills will take the college entrance examination, commit murder, or steal hearts, but they will not come to steal electric bikes.

"I'll find someone to help and see if we can find one or two electric bikes." Jiang Yuan said cautiously. But he also felt that it was good to do something for the villagers. There must be some interpersonal relationships between relatives, and being worldly-wise and calculating, he, a young forensic doctor, cannot always think about being on the cutting edge when helping relatives.

The emotions of everyone in the room soared.

Aunt Hua praised, "It's different when you become a civil servant. You can help others. Unlike my Junye, who doesn't work when he should, doesn't take the civil service exam when he should, and can't find a wife..."

Jiang Yuan looked at Aunt Hua, whose emotions were getting higher and higher, and had to remind her, "Auntie, the electric bike you lost two years ago, you won't be able to find it this year."

"It's okay, I'm not short of money." Aunt Hua waved her hand, looking very indifferent, and then said, "It's not necessarily impossible to find it. Thieves can't do it for a lifetime, and they can't do it for just one year. Unless his family has also been demolished, how can he stop stealing?"

Jiang Yuan felt that what Aunt Hua said was not entirely correct, but she was not entirely wrong either.

Jiang Yongxin finished eating the ribs in his hand in two or three bites, wiped his mouth, and asked more actively, "Jiang Yuan, you call someone, and I'll go to the property and ask them to retrieve the video footage."

He lost two electric bikes this year, and there is still hope of finding them. More importantly, he not only owns a car wash, but also a store that sells car and electric bike accessories. Whether it is related to theft cases or the surrounding public security, there are some grievances.

Jiang Yuan looked at the sky outside the window and said, "It's too late. We can't think about when to call someone, just call them whenever. Hmm... I'll make a call first."

Jiang Yuan was thinking about Wei Zhenguo in his head, and he called Wei Zhenguo.

Wei Zhenguo's Sixth Squadron is responsible for theft-related financial crimes and is considered a regular criminal investigation squadron.

Wei Zhenguo, who had just left a few hours ago, thought there was something left to do with the arson case, and quickly answered the phone with a smile, "Dr. Jiang, what can I do for you..."