I’ve put in a very good alarm system, but my wife just won’t use it. “This is a nice safe neighborhood” she says. “There’s no crime here” she says.
She even gets upset when I arm the system when we are out. Drives me absolutely crazy.
My wife used to wake up numerous times a night and then would wake me up saying “did you hear that”? Got an alarm, with motions, glass break, cameras, motion lights, dog and gun-—now she sleeps far better as do I——However, we know it’s not a guarantee, but increases our chances by a lot that we are on the offense instead of defense!
Sounds like normalization bias. They don’t want to believe it’s possible the evil in the world could show up on their doorstep.