Real Estate Investments

Some might argue that in a gated community, security surveillance is an unnecessary additive, the closed and combination protected fencing is enough. This belies the shocking number of incidents that occur despite these gates and fencing compounds. There are simply to many ways people can still get in. Residents can be tricked into revealing the combination, a trailing vehicle will almost always be able to enter with a true resident, and failing all that, one need only to look carefully at the combination pad to find the number pushed most often. These gates feed a false sense of security that we all develop about our places of work and residence.

Our nature does not help us when it comes to taking the correct precautions to keep our residences and work environment safe. We have a hierarchy of needs that we deal with in sequence, with the needs to be able to breath, eat and excrete at the base and moving up to more complex requirements. The second tier is where we find our need to remain free of injury from our environment. The problem is that once we are established in homes and offices, we stop looking at or thinking about how vulnerable we might still remain.

The challenge is that we do not get to solve one level and then forget about it, we can move up ad down the scale depending on circumstances. The phrase defining the home as a castle is reflective of our belief that once we are home, we are safe. The same is true about our workplace where for the most part, we feel okay after arrival, though that notion has taken a considerable blow thanks to sensational workplace violence.

When we deal with terrorists, we are still basically assessing the threat to people, usually our government officials, and taking action to interrupt the criminal mindset that wishes them ill. The avoidance of pattern behavior is one of the most difficult to address, we all have a most efficient path from home to work and back, and fall into a schedule for when and where we exercise or enjoy recreation. For that reason it is all the more important to do exactly that, avoid the predictable.

It is the assessment of threat that needs to be updated for the average person in difficult times. The care of builders and construction techniques used as a standard for protecting us against a level of generic threat does not account for more desperate individuals who may find themselves in situations they would never have imagined. Door and window locks, like bike locks and fences are adequate to keep the opportunistic criminal at bay, but a determined thief will only be delayed.

With the most common home invasion or break in crimes being theft and kidnapping, those are the threats we should look at most carefully. Fortunately, theft is far ad away the most common crime. With that in mind, evaluating the methodology we should use to increase our defense becomes simpler. Some of the things we can do are very low cost, better locks, wooden sticks to prevent sliding windows from opening and window locks are solid actions that are very helpful in convincing the casual or amateur criminal that another location makes more sense.

For these reasons, area image recording makes the most sense in the attempt to convince criminals there are better targets than your home or office. Criminals do not execute their crimes if they are convinced they will be apprehended, that is counter productive and even criminals know it. The key is to have a security surveillance system that is prominent so thieves know it is there, difficult to eliminate, and effective, so those who ignore the warning can be publicly apprehended.