The Home Burglar - Who are they and what do they want?
Do a burlgary search of your neighborhood at SpotCrime After reading about a couple of recent home burglaries and moving into a new place, I asked myself-how can I protect myself and my belongings? Luckily for me, I've moved myself out of West Baltimore (In case you don't know, West Baltimore doesn't have the safest of reputations . And don't ask why I lived there to begin with, I will be unable to answer that question for you) and into a much safer neighborhood. However, that doesn't alleviate the worries of being targeted by a criminal. In order to better prepare myself, I wanted to learn about burglars themselves and their possible motives. Most burglars are males under the age of 25 . According to the FBI crime statistics 2,199,125 burglaries took place in 2009 (complete 2010 data has still not been released). These burglaries accounted for 23.6% of the estimated property crimes committed in 2009. The other prop...