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FBI Offers $25K Reward For Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Painting Heist (networkworld.com)
coondoggie quotes a report from Networkworld: The FBI today said it was offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the recovery of seven Andy Warhol paintings stolen from the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri. The collection, which has been owned by the Springfield Art Museum since 1985, is set number 31 of the Campbell's Soup I collection and is valued at approximately $500,000. Each painting in the screen print collection measures 37 inches high by 24.5 inches wide and framed in white frames, the FBI stated. The FBI says that seven of 10 Andy Warhol paintings Campbell's Soup I collection, made in 1968, were taken. Since its inception, the FBI's Art Crime Team has recovered more than 2,650 items valued at over $150 million.
It's in the best interests of a state and its citizens to stop crime, so we employ people to do it. If a reward can get the authorities a lead more efficiently than paying an investigator that much salary for the time it would take, then it's in the peoples' best interests to see their taxes used that way.
Are you serious or am I being trolled?
The FBI will expend resources to find the person / people who committed this crime. That is what the FBI exist to do. In order to do this they will have to use man hours and equipment which will have a $ value and, through extensive experience, they will be able to make a remarkably accurate estimation of how many man hours and resources they will consume and what their % chance of catching the person will be.
If they can spend $25k on a tip, and that reduces the man hours used and or it increases the % chance of capture then it is the FBI spending money on what it is required to do.
Unless of course you are trying to argue that some criminal law shouldn't be enforced because you don't think it's important or the victims are a people / group you think aren't worthy of receiving FBI support.