All businesses are the potential targets of burglars. Any small business owner who thinks an establishment would be passed up by an intruder might find out the error of his or her judgment the hard way. Recently, several yoga studios and commercial gyms in the Washington, D.C. area were targeted by burglars. Most would consider these very atypical targets for burglary. Burglars think otherwise. Proprietors of yoga and fitness studios should heed the warnings in the news and take steps to both understand why burglars target these establishments and also to install primary and secondary commercial security systems.…
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Installing one or more security cameras inside your home can be extremely valuable in the event of a break-in, giving police ample evidence to arrest the individual who victimized you — and giving the courts plenty of reason to convict him or her. Your security camera, however, is only useful if it’s in a spot where it can’t be detected. In an easily identifiable spot, a burglar could easily hit the camera with a bat to break it or cover its lens with black spray paint, rendering it ineffective.…
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There are some common mistakes that people make when setting up home security in terms of putting themselves in the psychology of the burglar. Here are a few examples of how people fail to think like a burglar, including what you can do to correct the issues.
Not Making Alarm Systems and Cameras Obvious
Your first thought when it comes to adding an alarm system to your house is often going to be to hide the alarm systems because you’ve seen to many movies about expert thieves finding and disabling them.…
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