I seriously talk about this all the time. Maxis has almost
everything they need to introduce burglars.
We have:
- Kleptomaniac Sims, so the game can draw burglars from a pool of Sims with the correct trait (our own Sims won't break in unless we make them Kleptos)
- "Steal item" animations
- Police uniforms
- "Arrest" animations
- The ability for Sims to break into our houses while our Sims are sleeping (looking at you, Vladislaus Straud)
- Lot traits, so we can choose whether or not to allow burglars at all ("Bad Neighborhood" to enable burglars or increase their frequency, "Neighborhood Watch" to disable them outright or make them less common)
The only thing we lack are police cars (because, let's face it, watching the burglar and cop simply walk off the lot, instead of having them thrown in the back of the car and driven off, would be
incredibly anti-climactic). I could live without police cars, but I don't know if I'd
want to.