"law enforcement could quickly locate and recover the stolen vehicle"

"law enforcement agencies can achieve faster resolutions, greater efficiency, and better outcomes for vehicle theft cases"

Could and would are two very different things in America.

In most cases, the police would simply do nothing.

Facial recognition technology (see Facebook auto-detecting your friends when uploading a photo) has existed for decades. Why do the police still post photos of suspects asking the public in help identifying so-and-so?* Can't they cross-reference with the DMV database or even Facebook to see if there are any matches?

*Although these days they even stopped doing that, I've seen cases where they blurred out the suspects face and then asked the public in help identifying them. They do this to protect the criminal's identity. Sigh. I wish we could bring back name and shame.