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NO security products are guaranteed to prevent any crime - but will likely serve you well if combined with the guidance in Home Security. An addicted window peeper, as was Ted Bundy, serial killer Danny Rolling was on the prowl. He stopped at apartment 113 and entered an unlocked door. He crept past Christina Powell and went upstairs where he found Sonja Larson asleep. Rolling covered her mouth with duct tape as he stabbed her in the chest. ... Then he went back downstairs, taped Powell's mouth, and when she awakened, he bound her hands and told her he was going to rape and kill her [then did].
Excerpted from The Palm Beach Post 20 August 2000 Home security requires fortifying your home with security products, and then using them properly as taught in Home Security. What good are superb security products if any one of your family members carelessly endangers all of you? Burglars Look for Advantages:
Most burglars enter through unlocked (or weak) doors or windows!
Anything to help them climb to a less secure window, such as latticework, tree limbs, a vehicle, or unchained patio furniture or garbage cans to climb on.
Hiding spots provided by unlighted areas, flimsy enclosed porches, shrubbery, or privacy fences and walls.
An attached garage is a bonanza if its easy to get into. Hidden, theyll use your tools to penetrate the door to your house.
Screens are easy to quietly slice and reach through to unlock a door or climb through a window.
Homes without dogs or nosy neighbors.
Secluded homes without especially extensive security products.
Noises (such as heavy traffic or other machinery) help prowlers. We got an Ex-Con's Expert Advice on simple things you can do to avoid a burglary. What would make him choose your house? Therron Arrington, Parolee: "It's the lighting. That's the first thing that would bring me to it because it's dark. And lights, if they're within hand's reach you can unscrew them. Q: you've done that? A: I've done that. I've shot them out the day before with a BB gun. Q: Then you come back? A: Yeah, so it's dark." ... What about stickers warning of a home's security products? He says they get noticed, but only stop a thief if the alarm works. Therron Arrington: "Usually they'll check it and then pop the glass and wait. Q: For it to go off? A: See if it goes off."
Excerpted from a KSL-TV5 Salt Lake City report 26 February 2004 Burglary is one of the most preventable of crimes. Simply make your home the least burglar-attractive in your neighborhood. Look at your home through a burglars eyes and improve the worst area first. The most important are fortified doors and windows, good outdoor lighting, alarms, and a dog. Burglars usually avoid homes with even a small barking dog. Most adult dogs from animal shelters are ready to begin providing home security right away. Read Adopt the Perfect Dog: A Practical Guide to Choosing and Training an Adult Dog by Gwen Bailey Octopus 2000. 
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