Don, 11 years ago my wife and I had $36,000.00 worth of camera gear stolen, pretty much the collection of 7 years hard work.
This was the days of doing your insurance over the phone, we had more than adequate cover for it, except they didn't ever point out the fine print where they could tell us to go F ourselves, pretty much like Milton's recent escapades with insurance.
Back on topic, Coppers come around CSI the shit out of the place and then when I visited them 2 weeks later to get a progress report (Norwood station) the desk Sargent told me, off the record, that since it was under $100,000.00 they would not be chasing it up as they didn't have the funding for such small cases.
That didn't go down with me real well at all. As he explained much of the evidence they gather is shelved for when said ne'er do wells do get caught they then have a pile of cases to put on them to prevent them wiggling out of a prison term.
I still want to find the arsewipes who nicked it and kick them in the balls, but I harbour no residual anger towards them anymore you understand.