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Actually no. You asserted that burglaries are easy to solve. That may be, but it is also true that solution rates for property crime are much lower than they are for serious violent crime, and that reporting rates for proprty crime are about 20%. That means that for every property crime committed, the chances of getting arrested are probably well under 10%, and, as the conviction statistics you provided show, if you are not a career criminal, you are almost certain to get away with it. So, if burglaries are easy to solve, it must be sloth and incompetence that account for them not being solved, right?

What's the point? Despite the fact the COST of policing is waaaay up, and we have doofuses like Herr Professor Doktor Moose with credentials out the kazoo, the EFFECTIVENESS of policing just plain SUCKS. And people are DEAD because it SUCKS. We pay for hideous amounts of overtime so police can put on a show for the public in the sniper case, and reimburse the brass for worthless postgraduate degrees, and what do we get for it? A DECLINING murder solution rate.

So tell me again, what's your reason for "trusting" the police in this case?