Re: Commercial Alarm - help

["Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You're confusing crime in relation to false alarms. Less false alarms, does
not equate to a higher crime rate. Both are defined.

"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7292e4bbff177d43a0db6be3f850bc12@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >The number of systems in a given area is irrelevant.  The point of
> >these systems is to dispatch the police.  If 99% of the time police
> >are dipatched because of something other than the thing the damn
> >systems were designed to detect, then that's a 99% failure rate.  For
> >the love of God, how can you people argue with that.
>
> Let's try it this way.  Suppose the alarm industry set a goal:  cut the
> false alarms down to 50% of all dispatches.    Half the time it's a false
> alarm, half the time it's a burglar.  Gee, that sounds reasonable, doesn't
> it?
>
> But that would mean that the total number of false alarms could not exceed
> the total number of burglary attempts at locations with alarms.  No matter
> how many alarm systems are in use.  Does it make any sense to equate the
> number of false alarms to the number of burglaries?
>
> Of course, ideally the mere presence of an alarm would keep anyone from
> ever attempting a burglary, for fear of getting caught.  So the number of
> burglary attempts would likely drop as the fear of capture increased.  In
> order to maintain that 50% figure, the number of false alarms would also
> have to drop by the same amount.  Does it make any sense to expect a
> reduction in false alarms because the number of burglaries went down?
> Putting it another way, would alarm companies be allowed to have more
false
> alarms if the number of burglaries increased?
>
> Anywhere there is a large number of alarm systems and a relatively small
> number of burglaries, the false alarm percentage will be extremely high,
> and there is nothing alarm companies can do about that figure.  If you
> believe otherwise, you are expecting nearly all alarm systems  to operate
> absolutely flawlessly for indefinite periods of time.  I don't know of any
> consumer product that has that kind of reliability.  Do you?
>