She can ask the District Attorney’s (DA’s) office about pursuing charges for the alleged theft. It is ultimately the DA as the prosecutor who decides what charges are filed. If the DA declines to prosecute then she has her answer. Your daughter needs to understand that the DA and police have limited resources so that while a theft may have been committed here, if there was no loss from the theft prior to reporting it they may well decide that their resources are better spent pursuing cases where people have been harmed by the crime. Your daughter is not owed anything by the DA. Now that she knows the housemate might be a thief, she ought to ensure proper security for her stuff so that the housemate won’t take them again.

