Re: ADT Yard Signs

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nick markowitz wrote:
> I have
> a customer who is a councelor at local prison and has interviewed his share
> of burglars and they all tell him when they see an alarm sign on one house
> and not the other that the sign usuually is a target for a breakin and
> depending on the sign burglars already know how a system is installed and
> designed.

That follows the EXACT opposite pattern from almost all the breakins in
my neighborhood and the surrounding neighborhoods, and frankly isn't
intuitive.  Most breakins are quick smash and grab jobs...  And here in
California, it's the illegals that our legislature coddles who are the
perpetrators.  These aren't tech savvy criminals.  They want to get in,
grab stuff of value that can be pawned off, and get out.  First they
pick the neighborhood (affluent areas), and then pick the easy targets
within the neighborhood.  The houses with signs (with or without
systems) are not getting hit.

The *one* story I've heard that hasn't fit this mold were a pair of
idiots who thought they knew the police reponse time, and could get in
and out of alarmed houses fast enough.  They didn't count on a neighbor
hearing the alarm and subduing them with a couple Taser guns until the
police arrived.