Home burglaries are on the rise, and the truth is most of them aren’t well planned crimes – they’re crimes of opportunity. Some hoodlum sees a home that looks vulnerable, they see that they can easily gain access, and they go for it. It totally sucks when this happens, but in these tough times, the reality is that the incidence of things like this happening is only going up.
The good news is that there is a fairly easy and relatively inexpensive solution that can go a long way towards discouraging these boneheads from targeting your home. Consider the use of fake security cameras.
One of the wonderful things about the advancement of technology is that things such as home surveillance cameras are much more affordable and therefore much more common than they have ever been. Therefore more and more homes and small businesses are utilizing this technology, making it riskier for thugs to do their business because they know there is a good chance they’ll be ‘caught on tape’ (even though most of these are now ‘caught on a hard drive’, but that’s besides the point).
The thing is, for many people, it’s still just too much money to be able to set up a real home surveillance system. Not to worry… the crooks don’t need to know your budget!
You can simply buy realistic looking fake security cameras and your home will look like it has some of the best residential security systems around. At the main potential points of entry such as the front door, back door, side door and/or garage, you can get what looks like a small but totally functioning security camera, complete with a red blinking light and cables running into the wall where it is securely mounted. Think about it… if a criminal sees one of these cameras in an obvious place, do you think they’re going to bother to come up close and personal with it to verify whether or not it is totally legit? If they’re wrong and it IS a real camera… they’re busted! And if they find out that THIS camera is a fake… what is the guarantee that the next one isn’t the real deal?
This is a technique used by many businesses; they do incorporate a real surveillance system of a few cameras, but they will have many other ‘dummy security cameras’ positioned elsewhere (or else the dark, semi-globes in the ceiling, indicating there is a camera behind it potentially looking in any direction).
For those of us who can’t afford to spend a lot of money but want to do what we can to dissuade any possible intruders, a small investment in fake security cameras may be just what you’re looking for.