“Any good crook knows its less suspicious looking from the street in a well lit house early evening, than to be peering through a window close up late after the lights go out.”
Im glad you are that innocent. It should be a matter of pride for you that you do not possess a criminal mind. A good crook knows that it is generally suicidal to do ANYTHING when people are home in the evening. It happens,, but rarely.
A good criminal knows that daytime is playtime. Most houses are empty of people and full of cool stuff. They walk right up and ring the doorbell. If you answer,,”need landscaping done?”, “have you seen my dog?”,, or hand you a flyer.
If you DON’T answer,, they break in.
Oh,, and the guy who was in your house working last week. who had that sketch looking helper? Yeah,,, he noticed something ,,,
Dude, we are talking casing, not breaking in. That comes after you identify valuables. If there is no neighborhood watch, then it is easy to walk by a house and see whats in there at night with the lights on, and no one to see you do it.
I do alot of work in the gated communities around here. The homeowners tell me the timeline works like this:
First come the Santa Ana winds....along with the winds, come the fires..... then a few homes are burned down.... then the construction crews come .....then come the burglaries.....