Much has been made about the crime rate going down in the USA overall. The FBI’s preliminary numbers on 2009’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which aggregates data from police departments all over the country, show that overall crime was down. Many police departments like to use 10year averages to say that crime is down.

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Almost immediately after Oakland pink slipped dozens of officers, violent crime surged. The crime has escalated from burglaries and things like that to home invasion robberies.

There has been a string of hair raising attempted car-jackings at gunpoint. Even a construction crew was robbed by a gunman in the middle of the day. Last Thursday, a man was forced into his home and ordered to lay naked on his floor while his home was ransacked.

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The Houston Chronicle reports burglaries are up 22% over the past 4 years in Houston.   Police records indicate that apartment complexes in Houston were the most frequently burglarized.  About 60 apartment buildings were hit by burglars more than 20 times each last year!

Violent crimes including murder, rape and robbery are down in Houston during the first four months of the year, but burglaries and theft continue to increase despite a citywide public awareness campaign in March by Houston police.

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View original article in the Boston Herald by O’Ryan Johnson

Burglaries have jumped this year across a swath of Boston, leaving a trail of broken windows, busted locks and shattered nerves as residents and business owners gird for the menace.

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A tip for all of you DIY fanatics:

You can use spray enamel for plastics to color your SimpliSafe system; the components have been designed to take paint very well and can be customized to blend in with wooden door-frames or colorful walls. Just remember, don't spray over the serial numbers or the face of the motion sensor!

Here's what Lloyd from Florida had to say:

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Unlike most wireless security systems SimpliSafe is actually simple to install.

Last week we got a call from a woman who was a self-professed troglodyte; it was so bad she told us her six year old grand-daughter had to teach her to use her cell-phone. She ordered the SimpliSafe Apartment Alarm System for her condo and told us that she'd be calling when she received it to help her with her installation.

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Our Home Security System was featured in the home and garden section of the New York Times!

Excerpt from the NYT article published July 1, 2010: SHUTTING THE DOOR ON ALARM INSTALLERS

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Want extra components for your wireless burglar alarm? Summer time is a critical time to ensure you have all the security you need to prevent a burglary.

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