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To foil a thief: break-in protection.
Homeowners have never had it so good, at least according to the Department of Justice's most recent survey of crime victims. Break-ins have dropped from 110 per 1,000 households in 1973, when the surveys began, to fewer than 32 per 1,000 in 2000, the latest data available. While demographic and economic factors account for most of that decline, experts we interviewed suggest that better protection may also have played a part.
Some 17 percent of U.S. homes now have a professionally installed alarm system, compared with only about 9 percent in 1992. The results of our own nationwide survey of nearly 900 CONSUMER REPORTS readers who experienced an actual or ...
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- Magazine article from: Security Distributing & Marketing Engebretson, Joan October 1, 2008 700+ words
...aimed at reducing false alarms. People within the...initiatives to reduce false alarms and false dispatches...instructing their monitoring center to make a second call...successes in reducing false alarms have resulted from...
- Redundant detection offers best defense, least false alarms Being educated...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel DAVID BUTLER February 25, 1996 700+ words
...technology and education. False alarms are a major drain on...number one cause of false alarms: human error. For...best defense against false alarms and potential fines...including the link to the monitoring center. If the center is...
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- Magazine article from: Security Distributing & Marketing O'Mara, Deborah L. January 1, 2004 700+ words
A central station owner's heart belongs to the monitoring center. It's a long, difficult and arduous process to...operation that is "top in its class." It's no wonder false alarms are such a serious issue. Unfortunately, the central...
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- Magazine article from: Security Dealer September 1, 2005 700+ words
...Crime Alert/Your Monitoring Center, reports a renewed...For example, Your Monitoring Center (YMC) has recently...that will put Your Monitoring Center on the frontline in the fight against false alarms. The company has...
- False Alarms Put Police Through Wringer; Negligence, Faulty Systems Keep County...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Anna Borgman November 7, 1996 700+ words
...locations with the greatest number of false alarms last year, police said. For businesses...department. Since 1990, when 13,109 false alarms were recorded, their incidence has...That's an average of more than 50 false alarms daily -- one of every five calls county...
- Alarm Industry Works With Police To Reduce False Alarms
- Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire October 19, 1994 700+ words
...unveil steps being taken to reduce false alarms. The announcement was made at...systems comes an increase in false alarms, estimated by the IACP to be...million a year. Responding to false alarms saps law enforcement resources...
- False Alarms at Businesses Keep Okaloosa County, Fla., Sheriff's Office Busy.
- Newspaper article from: Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) May 10, 2004 700+ words
...responding to an increasingly high number of false alarms at local businesses, raising concerns...Lawmen say it would be one thing if these false alarms were evenly spread throughout the community...Deputies responded to an estimated 7,000 false alarms at local businesses last year. ...
- False alarms a costly expense: City, county spend thousands on needless runs.
- Newspaper article from: Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY) September 18, 2006 700+ words
...fire alarms. A look at the number of false alarms in the city and county in correlation...about 95 percent of alarm calls are false alarms, and that's being conservative...up with businesses that have multiple false alarms. The Daviess County Sheriff's Department...
