The economy, the housing market and the additional stress Americans are dealing with has sent crime on the rise in the United States. The FBI has displayed statistics that show when the foreclosure rate goes up by 1%, the crime rate increases by 2.8%.
Burglaries are the most common threat to American Home owners. According to the FBI, a burglary occurs somewhere in the United States every 15.4 seconds site source Becoming a victim of burglary can leave you and your family feeling vulnerable and violated.
Such a crime has to do with the broken window theory and the basic crime triangle, which states that you need three things in order to have a crime; you need a victim, a location, and an opportunity for the criminal.
If all those things are in place there is a good chance a crime will be committed, maybe not today, but eventually. Even though we live in one of the safest nations on the entire planet, it is still important to protect ourselves from harm, and our property from being damaged or vandalized.
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