PapaBlueMarlin's suggestion is very good. A friend of mine was burglarised not too long ago, and they caught the guy when my friend recognised most of his eclectic music collection in a popular second-hand music shop here. He got his music back, and because the music shop demands names and verifiable addresses from anyone from whom it buys music (because they don't, in principle, deal in stolen goods) the police tracked and arrested him. But damn, that sucks, horribly. At the end of the day it's not the stuff they took, but the fact that someone violated your private space, and that hurts. Don't lose faith in humanity, though-- for every criminal git there are a hundred decent people. It's just that the gits make their presence felt so much more strongly by their githood. I've been lucky, but acquaintances and neighbours have had some pretty bad experiences. I try to do my bit to help make other people just that little bit safer, and there are loads of other people doing the same thing. Maybe you could write out a short letter to put through your neighbors' doors, to let them know what happened. That way they can be extra vigilant against it happening to someone else... as well as maybe catching the person who broke into yours should they try it again. I'm truly sorry. The sad thing is that burglaries are not treated as serious crimes when they very much should be.