Locks only stop honest people.
Destructive entry is by far the most common with simple burglary and such - not lock picking.
Oh you have a $200 high security lock? Too bad it's on a $20 plank that breaks very easily.
Destructive entry is by far the most common with simple burglary and such - not lock picking.
Oh you have a $200 high security lock? Too bad it's on a $20 plank that breaks very easily.
The alarmist nature of the show not withstanding, it was very interesting to see him at work. Very rarely did he do anything technical, complex, or time consuming.
MOST of his entries: Press the doorbell to make sure nobody was home. Walk around, hop the back garden fence. Walk up to a door, turn away from it, bend his foot back, and kick the bottom of the door with his foot until the frame gave in (1-2 minute entry).
Rarely he'd break windows, screens, utilise a small crowbar, or utilise a ladder left laying down in people's back gardens to break into upper floors.
The most complicated break-in I witnessed on the show was via a motorised garage (essentially just used a crowbar, and then leverage to force it up, then slide under).
Never once did he use a lockpick, or do anything that a teenage couldn't have done. A screwdriver and or tiny crowbar are his only tools.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eewou/iama_retired_ca...
He says the best thing is to laminate accessible windows such that they cant be shattered easily. (obviously laminating the inside of the window)
That said, locks serve a different purpose - they're to stop random people from just coming by, taking your stuff and leaving. The kind of people who are not 100% commited to burglary, so they won't be destroying your property in order to get in, but who'd nevertheless take your stuff if they found it unprotected.
That, and also the important social signal: "strangers not welcome without announcing themselves and being allowed to enter".