So Sumas and Jeanne: in your experience, most squatters have legal utilities? They move in illegally but call DTE to have the power turned on? Call the city to get water put in their names?
In my experience they do not. Thus it is my business because they endanger their neighbors and they are stealing.

I do speak from experience because I had two girls and their girlfriends and their Honda-stripping Latin Count boyfriends sqautting next to me one entire summer recently. They used two long nails to jump the electric meter and they continued to adjust with electrical tape and nails every time that DTE cut lines until it was cut off at the pole. They had someone work on the gas meter too. Finally, they were carrying water into the house and dumping gray water - or worse - out the back window.

And the parties they had! Windows bashed out! Using 2X4's to assault their drunken guests!

This is in SW Detroit where thousands of people appear to be stealing electricity.