Comment by thisisit
Same dumbness applies to people who are supposed to enforce these laws. Enforcement authorities will often tell you to settle privately - “just return the money and ask your victim to rescind the case”. They don’t care for average consumer.
Are they incentivized to care? Are they paid well?
Usually for police it is much better to not register the case and push victim to settle privately.
If they register they got more work and worse statistics.