Bureaucracy plays a role in the lack of cooperation with local authorities. Once, I got a case in which some clown was defrauding people with phony cashier's checks to purchase vehicles. He had done this before, and it took five years to finally apprehend him the first time. This time, I xeroxed the main serials in the file, and took it to the police station in the local community where the fraud took place, telling the officers to use their fax machines to spread it around. Result: About five weeks later, my supervisor informed me that the clown had been chased from the extreme northern US to Miami, as police departments across the country had received the material via fax and knew right away at the first report of a phony check exactly what perp had done it. His last theft was of the boat he used to flee to a Caribbean Island, where the boat he stole with a phony check was located. The only problem: MY FIELD OFFICE DIDN'T GET CREDIT FOR THE CASE, as the locals in Florida told the local Field Office and they got credit, even though our field office started torturing the perp.
Start giving some kind of statistical reward for cases like this, and there would be more cooperation. A perp who took five years to catch the first time, was chased clear out of the country by relentless pursuit of informed local officers in FIVE WEEKS, but the suits were unhappy because someone else got "the credit."</p.
Please see roughrider's reply #30. It pertains to things you have written about recently.