-Awesome, if it's that obvious, the cops know and are choosing to do nothing about it, but you can be damn sure that if I round up the rest of the neighbors to run that drug dealer out of town, the cops will show up right quick to lecture and maybe arrest me

-Again, the cops probably won't be effective at evicting this asshole, and rounding up my friends to do the job will be actively impeded by cops and laws.

-Yeah it'd be super great if I could get my grandma's shit back when she sends it to a nigerian prince, but you really think the local cops could even write the report correctly?

-Returning to my first point, the odds of the cops actually resolving this are slim. Also, since I know so much about this kidnapping, and I'm the only lead they have. Guess who's getting pulled into an interrogation room?

Your end note is the absolute state of things. Society is falling apart.