Home security while away

I kind of somewhat agree with some about the camera. If you are gone an extended period of time and come home to find your house broken into and some pictures, possibly, the damage is already done. Granted you might have a picture of the person doing it, getting law enforcement to do anything about it now adays is a different story. I watched a taxi cab driver chase around 2 guys in a 2 square block of town. Kind of figured what had happened (jumped the fare). When I saw the taxi stop the local PD across from my workplace, I went out to ask if they were looking for the guys as they were on the corner and we had them on camera.I'm talking maybe 50 yards away and I could see them. The LEO turns to me and said he's not gonna go chase them that its on the taxi driver. All he is going to do is write a report. Being Federal, I had no jurisdiction. All I could do was say ok and go back to my workplace. It's not the first time, I had seen them work like before. It's sad that they don't even want to come out to investigate anything anymore hardly.

Since the OP mentioned he lives in the boonies, perhaps the sheriff there will be more proactive. Heck reactive would good also.