Re: Commercial Alarm - help

[<thesatguy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Stop and think how that percentage is calculated.  It compares the number
> of false alarms to the number of burglaries, something no alarm company
> can
> control.  The false alarm percentage will always be 100% until somebody
> decides to commit a crime.  The fewer burglaries there are, the higher the
> false alarm percentage will be.  That's true whether you have 100 false
> alarms or 10,000.

Actually you take the actual number of installed alarms in a given area and
compare that to the number of those alarms that have given a signal; at this
point you could ascertain a percentage of alarm systems that were giving
signals as opposed to the remaining percentage that were not.

Then, if you had the proper records and a complete investigation had been
made into each of the signals received, you could ascertain a percentage of
alarms that were caused by humans and what percentage were caused by
everything else.

However there are no investigations into alarm signals so there are no
figures - just these 99% figures based upon nothing more than a "guess" in
most cases cause the cops just guess its a false alarm because they didn't
find "anything".  Many times the customers find a lot of things the cops
didn't find yet that doesn't alter the original report that the alarm was
false.