Secure your home, strengthen your community. Irving’s Home Security Initiative at Work.
Over the last six months, residents should consider the following:
Answering “yes” to any of these questions increases the risk for burglary in your neighborhood.
Good locks, simple precautions, neighborly alertness and common sense can help prevent most property crimes. Get together with your neighbors to keep an eye on each other's homes. Half of all home burglaries occur during the day when alert neighbors could spot the thieves and call the police. Many neighborhoods have started youth patrols, or senior citizen "Window Watches," or trained people like newspaper carriers, cab drivers, and utility employees to watch out for suspicious activity on their routes.
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