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Your Security (Consumer Reports)

Your Security (Consumer Reports)

Information from Consumer Reports on Your Security

What cops and crooks say you're doing wrong.

You're an easy target. That's what we heard when we talked to police, experts, and especially people who have spent time on the other side of the law. As vacation season begins, and crime doesn't take a holiday, these security missteps may surprise you -- or at least remind you what police dramas taught: Be careful out there. Here are the mistakes to avoid at home 

At Home

Making a break-in too easy

"About half of all break-ins aren't break-ins but walk-ins," says Bob Portenier, consultant, lecturer, and former burglar. "Families get in a hurry in the morning -- kids going to school, running late for work, doctors' appointments, what have you -- and forget to take that one or two minutes to check the doors and locks, usually on the back side. You have a pet, you let it out to do its business -- and then forget the security French door or sliding glass door."

Remember, don't forget to turn on your home alarm. In a security survey of 1,038 U.S. homeowners we conducted in February, 43 percent of people in our survey who had an alarm said they at least occasionally don't turn it on when they're not at home. Some other troubling numbers. Nineteen percent of people in our survey said they at least occasionally leave doors at home unlocked when they're out, and 26 percent of survey respondents said they at least occasionally leave windows unlocked when they're not at home.

 

 

Leaving your garage door open

In addition to providing access to everything in the garage, the door most likely leads to an interior door and access to your house. That interior door probably isn't as strong as an exterior door. And once a burglar's in your garage, the neighbors can't see him.

Obscuring your house

Tall hedges and fences hide windows and doors, giving thieves cover to work, says Walter T. Shaw, former burglar and co-author of "A License to Steal."

Leaving valuables in sight

"When we targeted a house, we would approach the door and look in -- the quality of furniture, whatever there was -- to give us an idea of how these people spend their money," says Portenier. "So with mirror-tinted windows, it eliminates that."

Advertising a vacation

People often don't do anything to make the house look occupied, says Maj. Kurt Philipps of the Memphis police department. Lt. John Dzwlewicz of the New York City police department suggests this trick: Put some inexpensive kids' toys on the lawn. On Facebook, share news of your trip only after you return.

 

 

Being carefree with keys

Leaving keys under the doormat or elsewhere outside the home is a risk that 12 percent of people in our survey say they often take. Another 7 percent say they do it occasionally. And 66 percent say they have given a key to someone other than a resident of their home.

And avoid hiding your car keys inside or outside the car. That just makes it easier for thieves to engage in a spur-of-the-moment theft, authorities say. Many of today's cars make it difficult to lock your keys inside. If you're concerned about that anyway, keep a spare in your wallet or purse. Eleven percent of people in our survey said they at least occasionally leave car keys in the ignition when parked. And 52 percent of people from non-metro areas in our survey said they at least occasionally leave their car unlocked outside.

Tossing prescription bottles

Prescription labels on pill bottles can contain important information such as phone numbers, doctors, and prescription numbers. Remove the labels and shred them. Also be careful with medical records. And also treat your benefit claims forms, insurance reimbursements, and even medical tests as confidential information and destroy them before discarding.

Thinking a gun is your best defense

Gun ownership is a controversial topic, but research has shown that homeowners with guns increase the risks in their home. Homeowners might make the mistake of not getting proper training and not securing their firearms. Thirty-two percent reported having a gun as a security measure. And 73 percent of gun owners thought it was very good or excellent for protection.

Check Your Local Police Dept
Power Point Home Survey

Power Point Home Survey

 THIS IS NO COST TO YOU!

Ask your local police department  if they have a Power Point Home Survey Program.

Dean and I went to a meeting held by our church.  The local police department told us about this FREE program.  They are not there to sell you anything!

The aim of the surveys is to "give communities and individuals the skills to make their homes and property more resistant to theft and damage” therefore reducing crime.

Objectives
• survey a property
• identify potential security risks
make recommendations to reduce the risks
• understand the balance between security and safety.  (You can put bars on your windows to keep a burglar out and make yourself in danger because you cannot get out if you have a fire.)

The purpose of this course is to provide basic information to community groups so they can become involved in reducing crime.
The best way to achieve this is to take into account local problems and concerns, awareness of gangs because of graffiti etc. 

Here are some things that were discussed: 

• Home security checklist form
• Record of valuable property form
• Ask your local police department for contacts. A list of useful organizations, addresses and web resources.

Information Points
• The Objective is to try and make our homes and property more resistant to theft and damage
• Introduces the Home Security package and gives the skills to get started with surveying your own home
• The second part takes these skills further and develops them so that you can help others take this survey using a recognised system and to a recognised standard
• The third part looks at how we will apply these new skills and how to develop them.

Purpose is to determine the status of crime in your area.
Identify the risks.
Determine how you can protect your home and family.
Minimize criminal opportunity.
Senior Citizens and singles parents are often targets.

PowerPoint is designed to get individuals focused on the topic of burglary
• to identify security weak and strong points
• show that without any training at all; they are already have security problems

Knowledge is power.

Questions from Power Point Home Survey

Questions from Power Point Home Survey

  1. If you have a back yard, does it have a fence around it?
  2. If so, is it strong and well maintained?
  3. If you have a hedge at the front of your home, is it kept low so that there is good natural surveillance?
  4. Are your doors and their frames in good condition?
  5. Do you have exterior lighting near your doors?
  6. Do your exterior doors have dead bolt locks?
  7. Does your front door have a door chain or similar device?
  8. If your main door has no glass, do you have a peep hole?
  9. Do your patio doors have anti-lift devices, so they cannot be lifted off the track & removed?
  10. Do all ground floor windows have additional locks?
  11. If you have a padlock, is the hasp and strong and secure?
  12. Are all your tools/garden implements locked away?
  13. Are you in a Neighborhood Watch Program?
  14. Do you have smoke alarms?
  15. Do you have a fire plan?
  16. Do you have your valuables recorded?

Record of Valuable Property
Item
Serial Number
Description (make / model)
Date Purchased
Monitary Value
Where ID is Marked*

* INVENTORY ALL YOUR VALUABLES. Use your drivers license # to mark them. You can purchase a special marking pen to do this. This proves the item is yours for the insurance providers.

Prevent Home Invasion

Prevent Home Invasion

2. Prevent HOME INVASION  

Home invasion is frightening.   What is sad, so many of the victims are the elderly who are the most vulnerable.   We all want to feel safe in our own homes but  this is not always true.

We purchased our home from an elderly woman who had experienced a home invasion through a carport entrance to the kitchen.  This is what was done to make her home safe. 

  •  All our windows had holes drilled on each side and a blunt pin, similar to a nail, was placed in these holes.  Our windows cannot be opened from outside.
  • The other thing they did was replaced the window to the garage and on the inside is a decorative metal grate that is screwed over the window glass.
  • All the doors have double bolt locks.
  • Please go to our Home Security page to read the true story of personal friends who experienced a Home Invasion. 

We hope these articles will help you see the need and give you tips to improve the safety of your home and your neighborhood.

  • To have a safe neighborhood all of us need to be  good neighbors by watching for suspicious persons or cars and then contact the police if you see something unusual.  
  • For more information on home invasion  prevention, call your local police.
  • Criminals generally look for opportunities that require the least effort and offer low risk and high gain.

 

By now, most Americans are familiar with the horrific murder of a Pensacola,

Florida, couple by the name of Byrd and Melanie Billings. Regardless of the "why" and "how" of the killings,

one thing is painfully Obvious: a violent attack took place against a man and his wife inside their Own home. Nationwide, Home invasions are skyrocketing.

 

Home is the one place where most of us feel safe and protected. Even those

Who have a keen sense of self-defense feel free to let their guard down at

Home. And, sadly, most people do not possess a keen sense of self-defense.

Most people have the deluded opinion that law enforcement will protect them.

But even law enforcement professionals will tell you it is not their job to

Protect citizens; it is their job to apprehend and bring those who have

Committed crimes to justice. In other words, after you are dead, the cops

Will try to catch the guys who killed you.

 

It is time that people wake up to the fact that the responsibility of

Self-defense rests with each individual citizen. We are all vulnerable to

Attack--even in our homes! For this reason, our federal Constitution and

Most (if not all) State constitutions recognize the Natural Law right of

People to keep and bear arms.

 

Over the past 40-plus years, however, miscreants in Washington, D.C., and in

Our State capitols have been whittling away at the right of the people to

Keep and bear arms. Lawful gun dealers are being harangued and harassed out

Of existence by the BATFE. Law enforcement agencies and State prosecutors

Often side with criminals when they are shot in self-defense by intended

victims (especially in the Northeast). The media often characterizes lawful

gun owners as "gun nuts" or "militia members" to try to create the

impression that they are "dangerous" or "extremist." Public

education--especially higher education--is often a willing participant in

helping to demonize gun owners. Even Hollywood often uses its influence to

sway public opinion against gun owners. All this, coupled with a natural

lazy tendency of urban living, equates to a careless and defenseless

society: something both would-be tyrants in government and street criminals

love.

 

Fortunately, America's founders were wiser than most of today's generation.

They understood the relationship between the citizen's right (and

determination) to keep and bear arms and his or her safety and security.

 

For example, Thomas Jefferson said, "No free man shall ever be debarred the

use of arms." He also said, "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . .

disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes .

. . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the

assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an

unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

 

Likewise, Thomas Paine said, "[A]rms, like laws, discourage and keep the

invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as

property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived

of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart

of man, the weak will become prey to the strong. The history of every age

and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments

when they prove themselves."

 

The Billings double murder is the latest example of just how vulnerable we

all are to the violent tendencies of evil people. For this reason (and

more), every American should (1) resist any and all attempts by government

to curtail or restrict our legal right to keep and bear arms, and (2)

purchase, practice with, and always keep our own personal firearms handy.

Furthermore, we should always live in a heightened "state of alert" (even in

our own homes), because both our lives and our liberty may depend on it.

by Chuck Baldwin

 

home invasion

home invasion

 

3. Ways to make your house less of a target

1.  According to a study displaying window decals and yard signs can decrease your chances of a home invasion by 75%.

Go to our "Home Security Systems" page to get:

Free Security Stickers if you buy anything on our Home Security page

2. You can help secure your WINDOWS from being slid open by placing pins through the window frames. (this is one of the methods we use)

3. Consider a siren safety lock similar to what some Hotels use.  Home invasions often are push-in robberies.  Don't open your door unless you know the person.  Keep your door locked.

4. A solid door with a double deadbolt lock can delay a burglar; and time to a thief is  important  to their own safety, so don't give them that time.

5. A piece of wood placed in the window track or pins through the window frames prevent SLIDING GLASS doors from sliding open for the wrong person.

6. A DOG can be a great form of protection.  The racket a barking dog can make and the threat of discovery could stop an intruder. You can purchase a type of an alarm that is a barking dog. My daughter read that even a LARGE Dog food bowl placed on the outside of a door could stop an inexperienced thief.  

7. Keep your home and yard well lighted.  Light is the enemy of the home invader.

8. Don't allow your bushes around windows to be so tall they become a cover for the home invader. If you plant bushes make sure they are the prickliest kind (for example down south the Holly bush ) that would make an invader miserable trying to get in your window. Crooks are basicly lazy, they don't want to work too hard.

9. Never leave a key hidden under a mat or over a door frame for a robber to find.

10. Never open your door to a stranger.   A peep hole will allow you to see who is at your door before you open it. 

11. Do not use an answering machine message that might suggest you live alone, such as "Hello, I'm not home right now."  which might imply that only one person lives there.  A better suggestion might be, " We are not available....". 

12. When you are leaving on a trip:

  • Stop all deliveries
  • Connect some light or radio on a timer.
  • Notify police & a good neighbor.
  • Make sure someone maintains your lawn 

13. Keep a cell phone, Pepper Spray or Stun Gun  or even your car keys w/ your panic button as you go to the door  readily available if needed.

COMING HOME TO AN EMPTY HOUSE

COMING HOME TO AN EMPTY HOUSE

4.  COMING HOME TO AN EMPTY HOUSE Does it ever bother you to come home to an empty house and wonder if someone is there who shouldn’t be?  Here is a clever way to know if some stranger has been there before you. Choose a very noticeable spot that can be seen from the doorway and place a $5 or $10 dollar bill where it can easily be found. No greedy crook is going to pass that up.  When you return, open the door quietly and look to see if the money is there.  If it is missing, leave immediately and call someone, friend, police or 911. But someone who can safely enter the home or apartment with you. Do not yell out or try to warn the person of your presence. Leave as quickly and quietly as you can and get help.If you do not have a readily available spot for the money, I suggest you acquire either a small entry table, or shelf to hang on the wall.  But it must be easily noticed.   This information was part of a T.V. news item.

 

Crime Prevention

Crime Prevention

5. CRIME PREVENTION:  THE FEAR OF GETTING CAUGHT

The BIGGEST Fear a Criminal has is getting caught.  Why do criminals keep committing crimes?  It is they don’t think they will ever get caught.  You would think the idea of capital punishment would stop a crook. Our laws do not seem to have enough teeth.  The best deterrent is the certainty of getting caught.

In England they have a relatively low crime rate.  It is true they have very stiff penalties for serious crimes  But  in London video cameras are EVERYWHERE.  Another interesting fact is they do not have a large police prescence.  Law enforcement uses cameras which they use to recognize criminals in the process of commiting a crime.

How can we use this information? 

For an office or home we sell a camera as a deterrent to crime. 

Beware of Door to Door Salesmen

Beware of Door to Door Salesmen

6.  Beware of Door to Door Salesmen

My Son-in-law read this TRUE STORY in the paper. A couple were just about to go out to celebrate their 50th anniversary when there was a knock at the door.  Two men asked if they could give them an estimate for refurbishing the bathroom and laying kitchen flooring.Being it was special price, they agreed. While one man was in the bathroom, the other called for the lady to look at a sample, distracting her from his accomplice.It was not until after they left that the lady discovered they had stolen her 25th anniversary diamond watch, a diamond ring and other jewelry estimated at $10,000.      

  1. Never store jewelry in the bathroom.
  2.   Beware of allowing stranger in your home.  
  3. Do not hire anyone who just shows up without you calling them.   
  4. Don’t let them in a room alone unless you have removed your valuables.
  5. Know the reputation of the company you hire by recommendation of a friend.
  6. Consult the Better Business Bureau about a company before hiring them.
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