Decrease in Residential Crime Scientifically Linked to Home Security Systems

(May 7, 2010)

FRISCO, Texas, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A comprehensive study of five years of statistics by researches at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) in Newark found that residential burglar alarm systems decrease crime. While other studies have concluded that most burglars avoid alarm systems, this is the first study to focus on alarm systems while scientifically ruling out other factors that could have impacted the crime rate. The study, sponsored by the Alarm Industry Research & Educational Foundation, indicates that an installed burglar alarm makes a dwelling less attractive to the would-be and active intruders and protects the home without displacing burglaries to nearby homes.

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