neighborhood and individual level. It provides both direct and indirect controls against criminal activity by reducing the opportunity for crime.
Protecting Your Home
Walk around the exterior of your home (both during the day and night) and look at it from a criminal’s perspective. The objective is to eliminate any opportunity someone might have to commit a crime on your property.
Walk around your home, examining it from a criminal’s perspective.
Home Check List
` Check your door locks to make sure they fully latch and lock them when you are gone and at night.
` Change your garage door keypad password every six months.
` Consider getting an app on your phone that alerts you if you forget to close the garage door or the door is opened in your absence.
` Check your windows and make sure they remain locked at night or in your absence.
` Keep trees and shrubs trimmed back from windows, doors, and walkways.
Keep trees and shrubs trimmed back from windows, doors, and walkways.
` Use exterior lighting at night, and keep it all in working order.
` The house and garage should be kept in good repair. Disrepair indicates disinterest or a vacated property, which is appealing to criminals.
` Fully illuminate all doorways that open to the outside. ` Avoid landscaping that might create blind spots or hiding places; select landscaping that allows unobstructed views of vulnerable doors and windows from the street and other properties.
Fully illuminate all doorways that open to the outside of your home.
` Make sure packages left at your home are picked up immediately or hidden from view, or arrange to have
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