subject: L.A. Crime Rates Are Rising and Home Security Is More Important Than Ever [print this page] Living in L.ALiving in L.A. has its ups and downs: on the one hand, youre in one of the most cosmopolitan places on the planet and have countless amenities and so forth all around you; on the other hand, there is always the specter of rising crime rates to keep in mind, which has got a lot of home owners in the L.A. area quite a bit concerned. Between gang violence and other risks such as common burglary, home owners in the vicinity of Los Angeles really need to make sure that they are doing the best they can to implement the most comprehensive and effective home security plan. Getting started on improving your security conditions around the house is something that you simply cant afford to do no matter where you live, much less in L.A., and therefore the time for bolstering your security plan is now. Lets take a look at what a few options are for accomplishing just that:
1. Wireless alarms: to begin with, you want to make your first layers of protection as strong as possible, and your home alarm itself would be one of those first layers. If you have a hard wired alarmand especially if the wires can be seen or can be somehow detected from the outside of your homethen you are decreasing the effectiveness of this first layer of defense, since burglars are practically all familiar with ways to bypass such hardwired alarms if they can have access to even the slightest length of wire. Wireless alarms cut this problem right out of the picture and make sure that your first line of defense is as strong as possible and that your alarm will necessarily go off when a protected point is violated.
2. Lighting: its a simple solution, but good exterior lighting can work wonders when it comes to keeping criminals at bay. Not only the area around your front door, but also the back door and anywhere that a break-in could be foreseen, home security lighting should be put in place. The use of floodlights connected to a motion detector device and mounted well up above the reach of even a very tall person on the house wall is the best set up essentially. You might have to work it out in some way so that it doesnt bother your neighbors, but in any case some lighting is always going to be better than none.
3. Landscaping: this is a tip specifically applicable to properties with a fair bit of vegetation and yard space around the house itself. Though it may sound like a joke, in fact keeping your property well-groomed can present various significant home security advantages: it decreases the amount of shadows and general visual obstructions that provide burglars with just the kind of cover they want; and furthermore, it may eliminate other home security liabilities such as avenues that burglars would otherwise use to break-in (like a branch of a tree that comes within proximity of an unprotected first-floor window, for example).
L.A. Crime Rates Are Rising and Home Security Is More Important Than Ever
