Imagine you are a cop. You show up to this, honestly kind of stupid call. Someone stole a display rack full of potato chips. Like, we have murders to solve, but whatever. Then you think to yourself, what is the most absolutely useless, not not just useless, objectively pointless in a maliciously cruel way, thing I could do in this situation? Oh, I could arrest this dude who is just eating the chips, because that is going to help the situation.