What is relevent is that the solution rate for property crime is piss-poor, and the reporting rate is low because citizens have no confidence, and no reason to have confidence, in the police. Even the murder solution in some big cities is frighteningly low.
The ineffectiveness of police is undermining society. I am FOR capital punishment on principle, but look at what happened in Illinois. The governor simply could not be confident he was not signing the death warrant of the wrong guy. This sniper is just another example of how the police are letting everyone down.