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Are the cops routinely getting copies of electric bills?
Yes. As well as water bills.
And in my area its common to see drones doing line by line sweeps at night and everyone just seems unnervingly ok with that. What they are doing there is probably looking for the heat from ballasts from light but also the barometric pressure inside of homes and other buildings which can indicate if you're cooking meth or things like that.
Its all fucked up and a complete over reach but they definitely use any data they can to nail balls to the wall.
Obviously if you live in a suburb its going to be different than if you live in the hood and use 2x more electricity and water than anyone else in the area.
Be nice if they put that much effort into finding missing kids or not letting people like Epstein go free after they get caught the first time. But there is just so much money to be made when you can set up drug dealers and steal all their money and shit.
If the city is also the utility provider it's stupidly easy.
LA does have municipal power.
A lot of that information can be weirdly public. Looking up property records often comes with data about utility bills and taxes, and their payment statuses.