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Those are both very interesting links, thank you kindly for posting. I think that it would benefit everyone to read both pages and most importantly to put those principles to work in their own lives.
My dad was a policeman, and so I was brought up to think in such terms all the time. The family home was regarded as a sanctuary to be protected in every way, and so it was always everyone's task to be thinking proactively toward minimizing risks....we've been very lucky so far, unlike most all of our neighbors. I've found that a major element is to get into good, proactive habits that minimize risk of criminal problems and make such habits part of your life, to the point where you don't even think of them consciously anymore.
I think that a lot of people have good intentions, but they tend to forget about things like home security because if it's not an integral part of your daily routine I suppose a lot of people forget about it completely, until something bad happens.
Following your recommendations such as trimming UNDER as well as above hedges, maintaining and expanding upon security lighting and practicing regularly with your defensive weaponry are all things that people can integrate into their routines and hopefully readers to this thread might consider analyzing their routines....it's one thing to say "yes I know about that" but it's quite another to be doing it without thinking about it, day in and day out, year after year, so that it's ALWAYS taken care of and never forgotten.

Thank you so very much for your essential contributions :-)