Safety Tips Around the Home
(Seniors Choice Newsmagazine, November 2004)
Crime Stoppers primarily uses community partnerships solve crimes. Crime Stoppers also works with and encourages Crime Prevention. Over the next several issues I will provide Crime Prevention Tips for Home, and Personal safety.
Just as there is a Triangle for a fire: Heat, Oxygen, and Fuel. If one of these elements is missing there is no fire. There is a Crime Triangle: Desire, Ability, and Opportunity. If one of these elements is missing there is no crime.
The area most of the general public have the greatest influence to reduce crime is reducing the Opportunity to be a victim of crime.
The person(s) who have the desire to commit the crime may not have the ability but they may hire the people or equipment that will allow them to commit the crime, but they still need the opportunity or a victim. The desire to commit the crime may vary from the simple need for money to fuel a drug addiction, to an initiation to belong to a criminal group.
There are General Safety tips that all of can use to reduce the opportunity for other to make us a victim of a crime.
Safety Tips Around the Home:
Never open your door to strangers.
Never allow strangers into your residence.
Always ask callers at your door for identification as well as business numbers you can call to verify who they are and their status. Take a good look at the identification provided make sure it is genuine.
Never give out personal information in person or over the phone. If they say it is for a survey just tell them You Never provide that information.
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