Home Security and Safety
 

Home safety and home security is a state where you‘re safe and you can protect personal property.   Calling 911 is not enough, a good security system will allow you to protect yourself and your property.

Single family homes are most often targeted for burglary. Their risk is 35 percent greater than that of the entire population. They are more attractive than other types of properties for several reasons. First, single family homes portray wealth, especially as compared to townhouses and twins. They also provide the burglar with more cover than do other properties, so as they tend to be located further from neighboring properties that the other types.

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Single family homes also provide the burglar with more alternatives for entry to the property. Despite the attractiveness of single family homes, alarms are effective in deterring intruders. An alarmed single family home is more than 60 percent less likely to be burgled than a similar home without an alarm.

Unalarmed homes valued at more than $600,000 have as much as 5.5 times the burglary risk of alarmed houses with the same value.

Source: Dr. Simon Hakim, Temple University

Basic levels of Protection to Reduce Burglary…
There are five basic types of precautions which must be provided to significantly reduce the chance of burglary:

  • Deterring Measures: These are home security and safety measures which are likely to lower the chance of a break-in when the burglar cruises the neighborhood in search of a target. Burglars search for homes that appear to be unoccupied. Thus, deterring measures suggest that somebody is at home. For example, a car in the driveway, motion sensitive exterior lights, interior lights, and radios and TVs on timers, all give the impression that someone is in the home.
  • Preventive Measures: These are home security safety measures which make the actual break-in more difficult and/or time consuming. Burglars spend no more than 60 seconds breaking into a home. Measures which rise this time may cause burglars to change their mind. Some examples include deadbolt locks, bars on windows, and pins in sash windows.
  • Detection Measures: These are measures which detect the presence of an intruder on the premises and send a message out. Only a burglar alarm serves that purpose.
  • Managerial Measures: In nature, these measures are in the deterrence category. They are not physical precaution measures like the three previous categories but are associated with the deterring category in their objective, which is to produce the impression that somebody is home. They include stopping newspaper and mail delivery, notifying police when you will be away, and having neighbors watch your home.
  • Self Defense Providing self-defense as part of your security plans means having the ability to do something about intruders when no other course of action is available. This should be your last line of defense.  This does not necessarily mean harming your intruder.  You can escape, persuading your attacker that you’re somewhere you aren’t, giving your attacker another interest, such as money, safe, jewelry, while you make your escape.  Taking a Self defense course or martial arts helps.

 

Ralph Winn publishes articles, guides and reviews on security related topics. Ralph Winn has over 32 years of education and experience in the security industry. Your home should be your haven where you feel comfortable and secure. Everybody deserves to feel safe in their own home. The world around us can get hectic at times, and it's important to have a place of safety we can retreat to when times are tough. That's why our goal at the home security store is to help you find the best way to provide a protected environment for you and your loved ones. Ralph has created a user-friendly security do it yourself forum for you to get answers.