I don’t mean to upset/scare you, but in all honesty they probably won’t. Even if they do, it’s fairly likely they’d get off on a sentence most people would deem ridiculously light. Personally, I’d try not to keep up with it; it’s probably bound to cause upset. Baton down the hatches, get a camera or two if you can afford it, buy one of those steering wheel lock things if you have a car, and otherwise make your property look unattractive and like too much hassle to be worth it. Try and keep up on insurance, if you’re in the financial position to

Sorry for my pessimism. From a combination of my own experiences, what I’ve heard from other people, and news stories/crime statistics, there seems to be a lot of burglary at the moment, and the cops are stretched thin. And we seem to kind of have moved away from the punitive/prison model (which arguably is a good thing), but never really put anything else in place