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 Here are some of the easiest ways prevent crime from happening to you or to significantly reduce your chances of being a victim.
1. Be aware, what is happening in your neighborhood. Get to know your neighbors, exchange numbers, including emergency ones. This way, if anything ever happens in your home or on your property or to you, neighbors will know whom to contact in the event of an emergency. 2. Take simple and necessary precautions. There are many clever and inexpensive way to take precautions that you can implement around your home. Such things like alarm system warning decals, extra window and door locks and permit or lighting can go a long way in deterring crime. I will be going into more detail about this in the next 2 parts of this article. 3. Don't make yourself an easy target. It's hard to resist when opportunity comes knocking for a criminal- or what we like to refer to as the “why did he pick us” syndrome.
Remember a criminal is an opportunist. He is looking for an easy score. If a burglar is walking down your street at night in your house is very well lit, and your neighbors’ house is not, it makes it easier for the criminal to conceal himself and subsequently easier for him to break in. What are some factors that lead a burglar to avoid your house and go to the next? • He believes you're coming home soon.
• Make it more difficult for them to take advantage of you.
• He can be easily seen or watched. There used to be a time when you can even note on the door any key into the mat. However, in under most circumstances, those days are unfortunately long gone. Today, that same note, would read more like this to the criminal: Dear Mr. bad guy,
I'm not home right now.
Please let yourself in, there are leftovers in the fridge.
Oh, and my jewelry box is in my dresser drawer, second down on the right under my bikinis. Actually, believe it or not, the note is still a good idea… if properly formatted. For example: Hello billing clinic,
We had to run the store- sorry we could not be here when you arrived.
You have a key so please let yourself in.
By the way, would please feed Jaws for me. Now here comes the bad guy. What do you think he will be thinking as he reads this note? • He thinks two men are coming over.
• It sounds like you'll be home any time.
• There's something in the house call jaws. It doesn’t need to be complicated. When every you leave your home- even for a short period of time, lock your doors. It does not matter if you're just going to the store, which is three minutes away or picking your kids up from school. No matter what you do or where you go lock your doors and windows. What's important are the little details that would have him looking someplace else or moving on. |
