Wow,
Very sorry to hear about this.
I realize that the extent of your property loss is an extreme example, but i find that these happen frequently, be it on a lesser scale. I personally have had a Lectro 411 kit stolen and a good friend of mine had a good chunk of his package stolen in a very simmilar circumstances to you. After having this unplesent experiance i did the ussual call up all dealers and manufacturers and let them know the situation. What i found that only some of them actually have a database of stolen equipment, none of them actually share this with their peers in the industry. There has to be a way that we can orgenize a STOLEN EQUIPMENT database that would be available for all in the industry, and would connect all of the gear manufacturers and servicing centers, be it only in a very simple way such as an email per month to these companies, updating them wilth srial numbers of stolen equipment. Relying on the police department to recover the stolen property is equivalent to giving up. One thaught I have is that we can start a category on this site, with Jeff's blessing of corse, where members can post stolen equipment and an automated email could go out to the approprieate parties with any updates.
I would love to hear from others about their ideas on how to tackle this problem, concerns, solutions,etc.
I think that we have try to do something about this problem we cant expect anyone else to do it for us, it doesint have to be a project of monumental proportions, but it does have to start somehow.
Bartek