I’ve noticed that a lot more of my customers have been installing home alarm systems lately. They’ve become nervous due to the recent increase in home and camp burglaries in the area. I can’t really say that I blame them; a lot of them are elderly people who are afraid that not only are they easy targets for criminals to break into their houses but also easy victims for being beaten and perhaps even killed.
Although I have some concerns about how fast the police could actually get to their homes in response to the alarm, I think that it is entirely possible that if a thief DOES break into the house and audible alarms go off, the thief is more likely to leave quickly.