View Single Post Old 11-13-2012, 01:20 AM   #20 Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicago Posts: 605 My Ride: 328Ci
Sorry to hear you had to experience one of my biggest fears.
Good post, about generic home security .  First, a word about
physical security: If someone wants to get into your house, they
are going to get into your house. Period. If they want your
stuff, they're going to get it. I have seen every single type of
security system defeated. Burglars are good at it. This is what
they think about every day. There are numerous ways to defeat
physical barriers to entry. We have a saying, and that is "Locks
only keep honest people out." And now a word about alarms: 95%
useless, in my opinion. A generic burglar alarm is a "cry wolf"
machine. They go off all the time for no reason, to the point
that 97% of the alarms we respond to are false. Therefore they
get dropped to the lowest priority in terms of calls we respond
to. In other words, if your burglar alarm goes off, we'll get
there....even