I heard that over 98 percent of all alarms that go off are false alarms. If this is true, why should I even bother to have an alarm?
On an average day in a big city, about 50 to 75 alarms go off and all but about one or two of them are false alarms. Many law enforcement officers report that in their entire career, they have never personally responded to an alarm that turned out to be a real burglary.
However, every day there are well over 100 real burglaries reported in those same cities. That means burglars are not targeting locations that have an alarm. Therefore, having an alarm is obviously a great deterrent and virtually takes your property off the market of burglars. Since only about 20 percent of residences have alarms, burglars have plenty of other targets. |
