12-01-2008, 05:44 AM
Tips and ways to discourage break-ins, plus a couple of potentially useful gadgets and anti-theft/recovery technologies:
Home break-in prevention tips
http://home.howstuffworks.com/discourage...-ins11.htm
Home break-in prevention tips in more depth
http://home.howstuffworks.com/discourage-break-ins.htm
More home break-in prevention strategies
http://www.101homesecurity.com/home_secu...7493.shtml
Device mimics someone watching TV in unoccupied home at night
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/faket...scourages/
Tough film for glass near door latches and on vulnerable windows
http://www.diywindowsecurity.com/smash-a...99ddc24fb3
Infra-red flash motion-activated cameras
http://www.cabelas.com/ssubcat-1/cat20098.shtml
Also, here is a list of thirteen proactive measures a person can take to prevent car theft; one of these suggestions (#8) prompts me to wonder about using this sort of radio-beacon or GPS-tracker approach in a police-conducted sting operation.
http://www.carhelp.com/13-ways-to-prevent-car-theft.cfm
An acquaintance of mine recently wondered about actual versus reported activity with a company vehicle, so he had a GPS tracker installed in the company vehicle; turned out one of the employee was ripping off the company. If a sting operation used the same sorts of items frequently targeted by thieves but with transmitters embedded in highly coveted items, then perhaps the thieves could be more efficiently apprehended and convicted.
Cleaning up litter and acting against graffiti, broken windows, and public nuisance eyesores definitely has its place in preventing marginal individuals and feral teens from engaging in antisocial behavior, but crews which are arriving with a moving van and loading up the salable contents of a house are intentionally operating in a highly deliberate manner. These are not just random crimes of opportunity in the sense of some lowlife spotting an open door at an unattended house and spontaneously thinking "Hey, maybe I should go in and take anything and everything I can randomly grab?" There may be some of that, but the thieves which methodically clean out homes seem much more organized. Rather, they seem to be watching --actively scouting-- for target opportunities and to have a system worked out for their process from beginning to end of the thefts.
This may or may not be true, but I have been told the organized bands which systematically rip off houses on the Big Island store the goods and then ship (as in a container) accumulated items over to Oahu for liquidation there, where they are less likely to be caught redhanded trying to sell stolen property. If tracking devices of either the radio-beacon or GPS-mapping sort were to be used then even if the thieves were not apprehended while in the act of looting a home then perhaps they could be detected and nailed either at their warehouse(s) or when they attempt to move the goods out.
I just checked and the LoJack car-recovery system itself is not yet commercially available in Hawaii in cooperation with the police department, but surely there are similar technologies which could work in the same capacity by embedding detectable radio/GPS tags inside items for detection and tracking by police if the political will existed to make it so.
All of these measures work best within the context of an organized Neighborhood Watch program. Tremendous political strength would come to bear if all the neighborhoods in Puna organized themselves into Neighborhood Watch communities.
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman
"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."
NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt
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Edit: link labels added in green for better clarity of use.
Home break-in prevention tips
http://home.howstuffworks.com/discourage...-ins11.htm
Home break-in prevention tips in more depth
http://home.howstuffworks.com/discourage-break-ins.htm
More home break-in prevention strategies
http://www.101homesecurity.com/home_secu...7493.shtml
Device mimics someone watching TV in unoccupied home at night
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/21/faket...scourages/
Tough film for glass near door latches and on vulnerable windows
http://www.diywindowsecurity.com/smash-a...99ddc24fb3
Infra-red flash motion-activated cameras
http://www.cabelas.com/ssubcat-1/cat20098.shtml
Also, here is a list of thirteen proactive measures a person can take to prevent car theft; one of these suggestions (#8) prompts me to wonder about using this sort of radio-beacon or GPS-tracker approach in a police-conducted sting operation.
http://www.carhelp.com/13-ways-to-prevent-car-theft.cfm
An acquaintance of mine recently wondered about actual versus reported activity with a company vehicle, so he had a GPS tracker installed in the company vehicle; turned out one of the employee was ripping off the company. If a sting operation used the same sorts of items frequently targeted by thieves but with transmitters embedded in highly coveted items, then perhaps the thieves could be more efficiently apprehended and convicted.
Cleaning up litter and acting against graffiti, broken windows, and public nuisance eyesores definitely has its place in preventing marginal individuals and feral teens from engaging in antisocial behavior, but crews which are arriving with a moving van and loading up the salable contents of a house are intentionally operating in a highly deliberate manner. These are not just random crimes of opportunity in the sense of some lowlife spotting an open door at an unattended house and spontaneously thinking "Hey, maybe I should go in and take anything and everything I can randomly grab?" There may be some of that, but the thieves which methodically clean out homes seem much more organized. Rather, they seem to be watching --actively scouting-- for target opportunities and to have a system worked out for their process from beginning to end of the thefts.
This may or may not be true, but I have been told the organized bands which systematically rip off houses on the Big Island store the goods and then ship (as in a container) accumulated items over to Oahu for liquidation there, where they are less likely to be caught redhanded trying to sell stolen property. If tracking devices of either the radio-beacon or GPS-mapping sort were to be used then even if the thieves were not apprehended while in the act of looting a home then perhaps they could be detected and nailed either at their warehouse(s) or when they attempt to move the goods out.
I just checked and the LoJack car-recovery system itself is not yet commercially available in Hawaii in cooperation with the police department, but surely there are similar technologies which could work in the same capacity by embedding detectable radio/GPS tags inside items for detection and tracking by police if the political will existed to make it so.
All of these measures work best within the context of an organized Neighborhood Watch program. Tremendous political strength would come to bear if all the neighborhoods in Puna organized themselves into Neighborhood Watch communities.
)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'(
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman
"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."
NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt
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Edit: link labels added in green for better clarity of use.
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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