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...

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...

"Knock-knock" burglaries, where criminals target homes they think are empty, are on the rise. Security cameras have helped investigators catch some of these intruders. In one case in which a team of burglars were caught on camera, a woman holding a baby is seen knocking on the front door. No one answers. Her partners then break into the home through the back. In another case, two men were seen on camera kicking their way into a home. They then suddenly realize a camera just captured their crime. One of the...

This article appeared recently in a publication from the UK. "HUNDREDS of pounds of jewellery and cash has been stolen from a house in Tredworth. The incident happened on Wednesday when several gold necklaces and gold rings were stolen from a house in Bathurst Road, along with cash too. Meanwhile, another burglary took place in Calton Road yesterday, when thieves made off with a laptop. The burglaries come after police launched Operation Switch on October 14, with officers calling on known offenders and warning them of their extra vigilance ahead...

From social media to simply looking for habits, police say most home burglaries are when nobody's home. They say most cases can be prevented. “Appliances, jewelry anything they can sell easy or pawn,” said Officer margarita Strahan with the Midland Police Department. She says home burglaries are becoming all too common. “The burglary reports that I’ve had to take are usually when the homeowner is at work or on vacation,” she said. She says the thieves are all ages. “If they're young kids, then they just don't want to be...

Residential burglaries are plaguing Naperville with 12 occurring in less than two weeks, according to police. In half of those cases between Aug. 29 and Sept. 10, the burglars entered unlocked homes at night while the owners were sleeping, police said. In nearly all of the daytime cases, doors and windows were forced open. "We're thinking that there's probably a couple different crews out there, and in one group either a suspect or suspects are doing nighttime looking for open doors and another group or person is doing daytime kicking...

click for more info This is a story out of central Florida, where burglars who were wearing disguises case a neighborhood with high-end homes trying to determine patterns when homeowners leave so they can send in others to do their dirty work. You can read the whole story HERE. The culprits drive high-end cars and may be wearing business suits or medical scrubs so as to blend into the upscale neighborhoods. Usually, police think, the burglars case the home for comings and goings and strike after residents leave for work...