Never had a home break-in, but have had cars burglarized. They just smash a window and they’re in. Now we have alarm systems on our cars, factory installed. Says much about the times we live in.
When I was in the Marines, 1970’s, there was a rash of car burglaries on base. Mine and several other cars were broken into and tape players stolen.
NIS investigated with bait cars and guess who got caught?
THE MPs!.......................
I had a home invasion while I was at home back in the late 1980s. I did not have a dog at the time, but I had a Charter Arms Bulldog 44 spl that came so close to barking at partial trigger squeeze when the person saw it and turned and ran out of the damaged front door.
Be careful about leaving purses, laptops or backpacks visible in the vehicle. Place in the trunk or out of sight when parked outside in public areas.
When I was at Ft. Riley we had an extended exercise that kept us in the field for a couple weeks. When we got back in, virtually every unmarried lieutenant in the battalion returned to their off post apartments to find they'd been broken into.
CID worked with local law enforcement. It turned out a personnel clerk who had access to all the junior officer records figured out who was single and lived alone and where they lived, and gave the info to some compatriots in another unit that was not in the field at the time.
“guess who got caught?
THE MPs!”
It figures.