It is a well-established fact that criminals will avoid a home that has security cameras when they're looking for places to burglarize. It is one of the best two or three deterrents to home burglary. But for reasons of cost-home security cameras can be expensive, instead many homeowners opt for fake security cameras instead. Fake security cameras offer some of the same physical characteristics of real security cameras including real housing; 24/7 blinking, flashing red LED lights; motion activated movement and realistic looking wiring. As a matter of fact, they...

Home burglary is as popular as ever, with burglars that is! A home burglary happens every 13 seconds according to Department of Justice figures. So how do you improve your home security to a point where you can actually prevent burglary? An inexpensive, yet effective way to improve home security is by installing a fake surveillance camera. When a burglar sees a surveillance camera while he is casing a neighborhood, walking by homes that are potential targets, he is more than likely going to skip by that house simply because...

click for more details In today's blog post we're doing a product review of the Mace brand Home Security System The wireless window door sensor has a transmission range of up to 300 feet. When the motion detector or the door window sensor is triggered it sounds a 105 db alarm and sends a signal to the control unit which dials the first telephone number that you have in your programmed list. As many as five numbers can be on your list. The person answering the call will hear a...

A local animal control officer set up his own steam using a pinhole spy camera that he had hidden in his office to catch a thief with sticky fingers red handed. Get the rest of the story HERE. Apparently there have been several thefts before, so the officer decided to try and catch the man on his own. When he saw who the culprit was he got a couple other officers and they went to the house to arrest the culprit. "It catches them on video perfectly. So perfect evidence....

When you list your home for sale, the last thing in the world you expect is for your real estate agent to steal clothes from your house. But that is exactly what a homeowner's video surveillance camera caught recently. The homeowner presented the video to police who promptly arrested a man wore burglary. Police believe that the real estate agent has done this for quite some time. Read the whole story HERE. "How can something like this be prevented? Here are tips: • Install security cameras as part of your...

The Colorado Springs Police Department is seeking the public's help in apprehending two 20-year-old Hispanic males who are considered armed and dangerous because they stole weapons in a series of daytime residential burglaries-so-called "knock-knock" burglaries. It was unclear how the suspects were identified, but probably by security surveillance footage. Read the whole story HERE What Are Knock-Knock Burglaries? They are the latest craze for burglars to get into a house and steal merchandise. Here's how they work. Usually one, but sometimes two people ring the doorbell or knock at the...

This is a story about home burglaries during the holiday season. Many burglars feel that merchandise that is desirable to steal is more prevalent from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day. And of course they are right but that is only part of the story. Read the whole story HERE. For some reason homeowners get more careless and leave their homes unlocked which is sure way to get ripped off. Additionally FedEx, UPS and even USPS packages are left on doorsteps. Can you say "steal me"? Especially at this time of...

In today's blog post we're doing product reviews of diversion safes. What are diversion safes? The best way to describe them is as innocent looking, common household products such as food containers, cleaning products or soda cans with hollowed out interiors that are big enough to hold items such as cash and credit cards, jewelry, small collectibles and in some cases handguns. Some good examples are this Maxwell House Coffee Diversion Safe that has an interior department of 3" x 3.5". The container is weighted to give it the feel...