Do police really catch a hacker if you have their ip address?

[Nigel]

well how many hackers have been caught? not alot at all. when trying to track down a hacker, the trackers need to bypass the ip adress to get the location but out of a 75million other streams on the internet, its really hard to know what stream the fish is in.

Tracking a hacker is like trying to find a single piece of salt in a 10pound bag of sugar. having an ip adress only means nothing, it can lead to over 1000 or even a million different locations and which tracker is going to go knocking on millions of doors? lol none really unless you higher a pro hacker to hack the hacker.