To echo what other people have said, police in the city spend the vast majority of their time doing things totally unrelated to major crimes. In fact many officers never deal with major crimes, or only do so a few times in their career.

To address the point at hand, if we're going to summon people to court it makes sense to communicate the information reliably.

Additionally, I would love for policing to be primarily focused on serious crimes and not minor nuisance crimes, of which the city and state codify a mind boggling number.