by Dale Burger
For 24 years I have been in the
security industry selling, installing and monitoring home and office
burglar alarm systems. In that time I've seen a lot of scary and
hurtful things happen. Most break-ins are done by kids, drug addicts
and gangs looking for drugs or items they can pawn for money to buy
drugs. When they are in a home they are not nice about it. It's
estimated that approximately 84% of burglaries are somehow drug
related.
Recently there have been some changes
to this pattern. In the last few months I know of three homes that
not only were they broken into...their refrigerators and freezers
were completely cleaned out. They lost some valuables and cash but
also lost hundreds of dollars from the food taken. These have become
crimes of desperation.
At one of these homes they also took 3
spools of 12 gauge copper wire from the garage which can be sold to a
recycling center for quite a bit of cash. So if you think you don't
have anything worth stealing, you might want to reconsider what you
do have.