I’d say it goes for any kind of cctv footage. It’s always too low quality to identify an individual, and doesn’t show anything else than the crime happened. It’s useless to identify a suspect unless you already have the suspect in custody and can match time/location/clothes. When has anyone ever been arrested from being identified from cctv footage?

In the UK, more than 2500 times in one year, according to this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/11/super-recogn...

Out of how many cases though? 2500/2500 is rather impressive, but 2500/1,000,000? Not so much.

Cops definitely care more about stolen bikes than stolen credit cards.