The latest evolution of looting keeps making prime time news. We have all seen the crowds of mask wearing looters busting into stores 10 or more at a time and helping themselves to whatever they would like.
Imagine what looting might look like in America if the stores were empty and the police disbanded. 1.6 million home invasions occur every year in the US each year, that’s with cops and stores brimming with goods. (source)
Of course, looting isn’t just about retail stores. Bad guys like to break into homes, too. Is your home looter proof? How do you know? Chances are you are giving away precious information to looters in your area. You might even be inviting them! So, how do you stop it?
Well, Sun Tzu put it perfectly:
“Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.”
I Am the Looter
To help you better understand your foe I am going to play the role of the looter. I have some questions to ask you and how you answer these questions will verify whether you are easy looter target or not.
When I come around, are you home?
Time at home has increased a lot due to the pandemic and the push for more Americans to work from home. Are you home during the day?
If you are not home, is it very easy for me to tell that you are not home.
Is the driveway empty?
⇒ If You Have This on Your Property, Hide It Immediately
The most common time for a burglary is between 10am and 3pm. This is largely since thieves do not want to come face to face with another person.
What kind of home do you live in?
Are you in the kind of neighborhood and the kind of home that only the wealthy can afford? I like those big houses with nice cars out front. I know there are expensive things inside of them.
If I am looking at a shabby, run down home then I cannot help but ask myself, “Is it worth it?”
A nice big, well kept, house with busy people who are never home, that is the kind of place I like. I can get inside there and take my time.
What is on your property that might make me think twice?
Do you have anything standing between me and your home? If I see a simple walk to your side door or, even better your back door, it doesn’t get much better for me. I hate fences and other impediments.
A yard without any sign of cameras, floodlights, or any kind of alarm system is exactly the kind of place I like to “visit”.
I hate when I am casing a property and all the sudden a cacophony of howls and barks comes from the house. Especially those deep growls and barks from big dogs. Dogs can be a real problem for me.
Can I sneak onto your property without anyone seeing me?
Large trees, dark shadows, bushes, and shrubs are all great for concealing my approach. If I can work my way all around your property without you or your neighbors being able to see the suspicious activity, then I am really winning.
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A clear front yard with a powerful floodlight is as bad as it gets for someone like me. Being seen is always a problem.
If I try your car doors one night, will they be locked?
I can learn a lot about your security posture at home by simply pulling the handle on your car door one night.
While you are sleeping upstairs, I can just give the handle of the car door a pull.
If it opens then you are likely more relaxed about security in your home.
If that car door is locked up tight then you have a LOCKDOWN mentality, and your home is going to be more of a challenge. Depending on the home and the perceived valuables in the home, it might be more of a challenge then I am looking for.
What can I learn about you from your bumper stickers?
Prowlers like me, we love free intel. I am always amazed at what people are willing to tell the world about themselves by spackling it all over the back of their car.
Some people are so bold they even let me know exactly how many people and pets are in the home! Their little stick figure families on the car window tell me everything I need to know.
What about the value of the things in your home and how much money you really have. Even if you live in a modest home, bumper stickers that show off expensive vacation destinations, expensive hobbies, and private schools that your children attend, let me know you have resources.
If I try your backdoor one night, will it be locked?
On a Monday night I might try your car door.
If I get a chance to look around inside the glove box and the console then on a Wednesday afternoon, while your driveway is empty, I might return to try your backdoor. If it’s locked, I will look under the mat to see if you leave a spare key.
What is your bedtime? Do you wake up early?
For a latch lifter like me its always good to get to know your schedules. Do you wake up early and head off to the gym before work?
Do you stay out late with buddies after work on Fridays? The more I can learn about your schedule the better I can determine if your home is one that I want to break into.
The Next House on the Block
Now I will remove my Goon hat and get back to being a writer. The NEXT HOUSE mentality is how you win the game. It is not always a matter of making your home into an impenetrable fortress. Instead, you are merely trying to make your home the least appealing one on the block, to a looter.
This means you want a balanced approach to things like cameras, lights, and deterrents like dogs or alarm systems. You can also be a little more careful about OPSEC and what you share with the world on social media and with bumper stickers.
A little vigilance goes a long way. Make sure the doors and windows are locked on your home. Remember, most burglars are opportunists and, unless you are guarding something precious, it only takes a few deterrents break their will. Your goal is to just move them along to the next house on the block.
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We are all target’s.
Not worried about looters,
It’s all the weak people that will be willing to follow the evilness that is here.
If you think that you are doing good by going along with this sick and deepply perverted way of life that we now have to live in.
Then you will go where they will be.
Such little time on this earth. Judgment, will be forever.
Let no one, Decive You.
stay sharp
We have young kids robbing stores and homes with guns under the age of “18” and where are their parents?
Are their parents the new America of indoctrinated Marxism of public CRT union schools we have heard about for years now? Kids having kids of socially indoctrinated haters of American traditions?
Do we have young generations able to fight to uphold our America as we knew it before the great Covid reset of Dr Fauci and Wuhan labs? Now we have secret Chinese bioweapon lab found in California. How many other secret Chinese labs are there in America?
Why are we the people letting tyrant Bidenomics having open southern border of Chinese nationals and terrorists flowing into America to plan the next Pearl Harbor, 911 or an October 7th surprise attack?
WE have let it happen for generations, fat, dumb and happy.
WE continue to complain and do nothing.
The End….
The Lord is ALWAYS watching….ALWAYS!!!! HE sees, and knows what you are thinking ALWAYS!!
Jesus taught respect for preparing against thieves and robbers. I detect a different attitude in you. I know nothing about the person who wrote this article, but I thank him/her for it. I knew about most of what is written, but was able to learn a bit more. Just as the looter can learn about a person by noticing their bumper stickers, I learn about you from your poorly written comments. You need to clean it up a bit!
We got a nation divided by Clinton’s, Obama’s, Biden’s and the squad who hate and manipulate Americans into communism.
Our nation has real men able to defend America and men who will fight if they get taxpayer’s funding for granny and boob surgery, real?
Who is behind this great deceiving of the young, besides Satan? We have since carter screwed up, Clinton, Obama, Biden of the modern era of corruption to be thankful for. Other presidents have tried to correct the American country or ship in the correct path or direction this Christian nation was designed for.
The Biden Conspiracy of where, what, who is really guiding our nation is shrouded in secrecy. Many of us have strong opinions of who is running America behind the scenes before the next presidential election.
It is satan. Just as you said.
AND very Weak people.
They are the one’s that are behind all this evil. They also will be the one’s casted into the fire. Sad, is that they are derived by satan.
The final collapse of the American dollar is part of the final step to the digital Satan currency.
The Chinese don’t need to use guns to defeat America, they are using artillery shells of drugs like fentanyl and the illegal invasion troops to overwhelm the American economy by Bidenomics.
Will we, us you, me fight for our country or let the globalist win and subjugate your souls?
2024 is here about four years early with Bidenomics picking up speed to destroy us. Ready to rumble? Live free or die?
Besides God the weaponized alphabet agencies are watching us too.
It’s what happens you elect people like Reagan who had a fortune tellar on stand by
Better to have a fortune teller on stand by than a pedo sitting at the desk and praising the Squat Squad!
America has a portion of gamesters an druggies doing smash and grabs.
There are traditional types of sports, physical actions an able to read, write, speak in English and to basic math to make change of dollar bills.
China plans in 50 to 100 years what to do, America plans every 4 years of presidential elections. China, Biden are linked together to bring America down.
What opportunities do the youth have for jobs when the political unions have raised the low starting wages to $20 bucks an hour as a livable wage for a family of four.
The illegals are either taking low paying jobs or welfare. The American youth used to get part time low wage Summer jobs to have pocket change for stuff. Now the political unions strike almost every day for higher wages driving up the cost of goods everywhere. Basic economics is not quite taught in grade schools or any other basic knowledge.
No wonder we are failing as a nation while other nations beef up their education of their youth.
China’s Trick Talk social platform is twofold, China’s version has education, the American version has dumb challenges and people talking smack against America, who is stronger as a nation?
Build the southern border wall now! We got our own misfits of criminals robbing, beating, killing Americans.
We do not need any illegal foreigners taking up the criminal life that they did back in their home countries staying here. Bidenomics is already destroying our nation.
We only park our vehicles in the garage day or night so with this scenario that’s one problem solved.
This does protect the vehicles and take away several “tells” a burglar looks for however it may lead them to believe there is not anyone home. Make sure that there is some indication that they don’t believe this is the case.
An excellent book on the subject the author is presenting here is “Sheep No More” (by Jonathin T. Gillum). To defeat an attack or burglary you must think like the criminal.
As the author quoted Sun Tzu : “Know thy enemy”.
Stay safe,
JW
‘God helps them who help themselves’. A criminal doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about eternity. The criminal is opportunistic. If a criminal wants something, including your life, the crime will occur at the best and most opportune for the criminal. You could have a pack of wolves guarding your home. You could have barbed wire and a mine field surrounding your house. You could have cameras monitoring your house 24/.7. The simple fact is that criminals see risk versus reward. Do you have what the criminal wants or needs? How easy will it be for the criminal to gain access?
Not mentioned in the article is, to me, the gravest mistake one can make: Assuning that criminals will wait for no one to be home. You will remain most vulnerable when you either enter or exit your house. You will be fixated on something other than a crime. You could be thinking about groceries or family or whether you need a haircut. You could be thinking about what happened at work or “that idiot who cut me off on the highway”.
The best way to keep yourself and your home safe is awareness. Sights, sounds, even smells should be your Warning System. Alarms, lights, fences, and protective animals can all be defeated quickly by a determined criminal who believes the reward is worth the risk. The old saying of “Look before you leap” is now more important than ever before.
The God awful Demoncrat presidential choices at the moment are who will take Biden’s place. Michelle Obama and or CA governor Newsom.
We got Biden’s Christmas illegal caravan coming to a home next to you on welfare, not work, Americans are born suckers today from CRT, DEI an so on.
Wake up losers, it’s not your country anymore.
The Biden and administration Deep State and the U.N., are your rulers here on earth.
Biden, Soros and others live in glass houses behind gated communities laughing at us who must live with these open southern border illegals.
That is why Trump is being abused, liberal judges cancelling Trump off the 2024 presidential election.
So I have an honest question, what about those alarm signs you can buy on Amazon even if you don’t have an alarm system?
Are they a deterrent or an invitation?
If it’s a Brinks or ADT alarm sign in front of a trashy house, unkempt yard… then the owner doesn’t look like they can afford a monthly alarm payment and it is probably an invitation. Otherwise, a deterrent.
I would say 60/40 on the deterrent side, maybe more. It all depends on the criminal and his state of desperation. Generally an ADT sign or similar is a deterrent, but as the saying goes “professionals are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs”. I’ve been very fortunate in that area and have not had any problems with theft, damage, etc to speak of. I’ve deliberately kept a certain degree of junk around my place that is visible from the road. I live out in the country and have several acres to roam on. You can NOT use that logic in the city. Cities fine and confiscate property from people who don’t play by the rules in town. So it’s more difficult to use the “sure fire” hillbilly techniques in town. And that doesn’t stop some of them anyway. Sad truth is that only 3 tools are needed to get into the vast majority of houses. All readily available at the local hardware store. Sledgehammer, chainsaw and a long prybar. And really only two are needed, the prybar and sledgehammer. Very few entry doors will stand up to a 12# sledgehammer for more than half a dozen well-placed hits, sad to say. A very well framed, windowless, steel SECURITY door can take that and much more. And i mean a security door, not a metal jacketed wood core door. A standard metal jacketed wood core door can be, if properly framed, well locked in multiple locations and with an all metal long strike plate a pretty good solid deterrent against a mad ex-boyfriend or a dumber would be intruder. Healthy guy with a fairly heavy sledge that knows where to hit it, or a LEO with a ram, not a chance of stopping him. But back to the subject a little more, if you have metal clad entry doors, installed as mentioned above, ADT signs, riot/hurricane glass on securely locked windows, ring doorbell system or similar AND a large dog inside the house that barks when people are at the door, then you are in pretty good shape except for the pro burglar that is there only for a certain thing of value that he KNOWS you have. If you upgrade that above to a full-blown Security door, you are in pretty good overall shape.
Very True
But alarms only scare off, and only work if there is response by pd
when your overwelmed , the pd has you on the list , ? when , how long
other questions are Why?
think about it , really think it thru
Evil never does what is right , just , and best
cowards never confront , upfront
and politicians always look for thier own interest 1st
so you really are screwed , on your own and as your community is in support
Wake up , see the truth , see the real agenda
Depopulation , koas, marshall law , evil intensions
Now the real reason : NO LAW , NO God , NO Real accountability
Everyone does what is right in thier own eyes , this is why they the left got rid of God , Everything to convict them of thier evil , so they could do what ever they want ( Rebellion ) and feel good about it
Well The consequence may be delayed but the Judgement wont be
as it gets worse , it will always be circumstance and eye of the beholder
since the perverts, thieves, crime familys dont believe in a supreme God of all humanity , they will have No Conscience and Justify every action and motive to accomplish what they think is right in thier own eyes
God is Patient , Forgiving , Loving , and waits until the very last moment in time to pronounce his judgement on the Rebellion .
Deception rampant , lust , evil rampant , then the End , wipes out everyone who chooses Evil
Very Clear in the new testiment : there is a way that seems right to every man, woman, person, and that always leads to the same place
Rebellion , seeing your self as God, in the place of God, and doing your will to get your own way .
This is mankind
No God , NO peace , make that decision today to follow, trust , believe in the Name of Jesus Christ , Gods Son , and the Holy spirit will give you new life , old is passed away , the new start s today
Christopher: your comments MAY be valid and even right on, however, I just CAN’T read them. The spaces, the apostrophes, the lack of sentences or even whole words just look like gibberish to me. PLEASE!! Use proper grammar and let others read what you think.
I just happen to know a former felon. He was never arrested for break ins or thefts, but he did a lot of them. As we are acquainted, he gives me clues about protection. Mainly no matter who you are or what you have, or the kind of protection you have .. he can get what he wants from you. A big dog is the best offense, but food or a baseball bat, and the dog is down and out. A gun unless in your hands at all times, is worthless. As he kicks in your doors and he takes you out as you fetch your gun. He is armed, ready before kicking in the door … knowing when people carry it is outside their safe home … inside, they let their guard down, and will have to fetch their gun. The only secure home, is one that a criminal can not penetrate. A door that can not be kicked in, and windows that can’t be broken into or broken.
Some things will slow him down, but I am convinced if he wants what is inside, he will get it, and a lot of cold heart-ed people won’t be stopped with eliminating you or me. We are merely obstacles like the door. If you say you carry … carry inside your home too. Sleep with the weapon at your side, and be prepared to take a criminal’s life, because you can be sure, he is prepared to take yours
Absolutely true. I’m single older gentleman. I sleep with my .45 next to me on my bed. I don’t toss and turn. When I get up and put on my pants, my .45 goes into my holster. My cameras let me know who is coming to my door. When I open my door and look through my security door, my .45 is in my hand at my side. I don’t consider myself paranoid, but due to the craziness going on, I’m prepared.
Get a 10mm glock , 45 acp is for fudds
I had a whole page wrote here and it vanished
So will start over,
Victor Lamus
You are so right about what you are saying
I see red when I see what is happening to our country,
LOCK AND LOAD AND HOLD THE ROAD.
Digital Currency is the end of the united states as we know it.
The rich will not rule the poor and the middle class.
We will be come as one,
United in the brother hood to save our country.
I can see these rich BXXX heading for there bunkers and jet plans
with thousands of people chasing them.
I am sure that the men in the military will join in with the common
people to fight this Bidin Goverment .
To try to destroy the future for our grand children .
Controlling every aspect of our lives .
Like Cummunism .North Korea. China, Russia,
They can turn your money off any time they like,
What if you had to save your child , or a friend , Member of your family.
and they shut off your card so you could not but gas for your car to to them.
They could drive any one in to poverty, ,
Steel your money,
WE can not let them take over our country,
Trump had every thing on the up and up,
America was in the best shape it had ever been in,
And Bidin destroyed it all,
NOW EVERY THING IS going down the gutter,
I just hope we have a country lift by the time Trump
is back in the WHITE HOUSE.
Or this country is in for the fight of its life,
To try and take a way our GOD GIVEN FREEDOMS.
And lead it to COMMUNISM,
The American will not let this happen
and nether will TRUMP.
The people that don’t like Trump are scared.
and have a lot hide.
and a lot of them are not going to run a 2nd term .
That tells me they Know Trump is coming back.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATS
DONALD J, TRUMP
2024
trump is a not a GOD he isn’t going to save you…voting is going to fix any of this and TRUMp isn’t winning .
he is to anti gun and pro vax
AS FOR BEING BROKE IT TO.
I have had that a lot living in a small village,
on the end of a block,
Funny how no one here sees nothing,
And other place I have live over 30 years,
I put in camera’s dead bolts. pad o locks.
and have not been able to stop them.
The only thing that dose is to bara cade it when I leave the property.
Use lot of masking tape a round every thing you throw a against the door.
Most of the time they do not want you to know they got in,
so they lock the door when they leave,
Meaning that there using lock picks.
so put a on hasps and use pad o lock and rap a lot of tape a round them.
But on at lest 3 lock on . and dead bolt. and run tape across the door and up and down.
then bear a cade and rap tape a round every thing.
It may take you a wall to get back in your house but this is working for me.
And make sure you have hasps on all you other doors leading out of your house.
no mater if you have a dead bolt,
double lock it from inside ,
Then bear cade the one your going out.
Yes its work but most will not want to go threw all that to get in.
Make it pure hell for them,
This village is Kendall Wis.
It makes you wander if people a round you are in on it.
They just busted a big ring of them in Bloom city Wisconsin.
Richland county Wisconsin.
They had been at it for a long time and had a big shed full of every thing.
from small to big , Welders , 4 wheelers lawn tractors, , auto parts
TV s , Radios computers. you name it , had to be a lot of people in on this one.
This just happened recently .
Chirstopher
Maybe not every thing looks right to some on this site.
But I can read every thing you have wrote here just fine.
And I think you have done a good job getting your
point a cross,
Some of the smartest people do not write perfect, .
But wiser then most,
Its not all that you know but what you can do with what you know..
And even I mess up some times, .
Just keep at and don’t quit,
All vary good comments,
To Victor Lamas.
Right on point,
My advice to any one,
LOCK AND LOAD and hold the road,
The digital currency , To take a way all our god given freedoms.
To control every aspect of our lives like china, North Korea, Russia.
If they try to push this threw and throw in our faces,
You can bet this country will be at war ,
We have fought to many wars to let this happen to the United States.
There would be no savings, No future for our grand children Limited to what we can by,
tracked where ever we go, turn our money off when we would be in great need
to save a family member . a friend, . But many limits on our lives,
If they try to push this , Big cities will see riots like nothing they have never seen be for.
Looter’s will come out of the wood work , . and every true American will join the fight
to save our country and our freedoms,
We will not be slaves to the rich,
I can see them heading for there bunkers. and privet jets, .
with mobs of people running after them, ,
I can see people in the military joining in the fight to save this country
We will not live under communism ,
THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
BE dammed if there going to rule us ,
LOCK AND LOAD . WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP OUR GUN.
HOLD THE ROAD, There is already a lot of pissed of American for how this country is now being run,
Trump
I knew a burglar felon who told me that he would never try to enter a house if there was a registered car parked on the property. He would knock before breaking in. A big dog is a partial deterant. Dogs can be neutralized. The sound of a 12 Guage pump cycling can send them running.
Hahaha hahaha the racking of a 12 gauge so stupid
One problem not discussed. This fall and into winter (no snow), we have had a drone beien flying up where the naked eye cannot see it. Our dog alerted us to it. When he focuses on a spot in the sky and starts barking, I take out my phone and snap pictures. When I go back and look at the picture and blow it up, I find the drone. So the problem for us is, are they watching from the sky to see who leaves, who is home, what time do they leave, you get the picture. So I believe we are being monitored from the sky. I just have no way to find out who it is. But, beware, your enemy could be up above and you wouldn’t know.
Great article, thank you. I learned a few new things that I need to work on so I appreciate the helpful hints. Take care of yourself and your family, be watchful, and be smart. However, don’t harden your heart so much you’re not willing to help others as needed.