Home Security in the New Millennium: Researchers Put a Value on Victimization

Crime statistics dictate the need for home security in our time. Home security has always been viewed as optional and a luxury item. In our current troubled times everyone has access, and the responsibility, to secure their homes with a home security system.

Quoting the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released June 12, 2006 "From the Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported an increase of 2.5 percent in the number
of violent crimes brought to their attention in 2005 when compared to figures reported for 2004"

From 2004 to 2005 violent crime increased by 25 per thousand, a substantial increase if you take into account the astronomical total of violent crimes reported in the United States. Also considering 2004-2005 was a prosperous year for the United States, which typically depresses crime data, we can use our present economic depression to realize crime must be on the rise today as much as it was in 2005.

The average cost of crime to victims, from the study "Victim Costs and Consequences: A New Look" conducted by National Institute of Justice, is 150 billion dollars each year. For fifty cents a day you can ensure your safety, and the safety of your family. Why become a victim when you can ensure safety by installing home security?