Philadelphia cops are completely and totally incompetent.
Let’s hope Nutter fires EVERYONE on the current staff and replaces them with some folks who know, respect, and enforce the laws. Hey, I can dream. Otherwise, I have to move to another city that actually HAS a police force, not just a bunch of donut-eating, prostitute-beating criminals in uniform like we have here in Philly.
I had something very similar happen to me in January. An Amtrak conductor stole my laptop when I left it unattended on the train (ok i screwed up there). He then went online and I tracked his activity on my computer which I can do because I have logging software on there. I got him at a couple of different IP addresses including a hotel in South Carolina where Amtrak employees rest up, the other one was his home IP address in virginia apparently.
The police were not much interested until I tracked the guy to his profile on migente.com (since deleted) where he was dumb enough to post his photo and a description of his job - probably using my laptop to do it! For good measure, I spoke to someone at migente.com who was great and promised to hang onto all of this guy’s records ready for the police - all they needed was to subpoena and they could have had it all.