“We have about 6,000 people in our town”.
Obviously hard to catch the thieves there but in MY town, which is much much smaller, we would know rather quickly who was the thief, dog doo doo is pretty smelly.
We have very little crime here. We have almost five acres, our next door neighbor has ten or twelve acres, and some have a variation, or actual farms. Imho, areas where residences are closer together are more attractive to thieves. Also, this town is very conservative with quite a number of gun owners.