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Do burglars wander the streets at night testing doors of random places to see if they're locked? If we put the issue to cars instead of houses, there are a lot of people who would rather have their stereo stolen than have their stereo stolen and window broken. To me most locks are more peace-of-mind security.

I just don't buy that lacking some form of security dooms you to whatever penalties the security may have protected against, if indeed any.



>Do burglars wander the streets at night testing doors of random places to see if they're locked?

Yes. Criminals are oddly enough generally pretty good at cost-benefit analysis. At least in the short term.


FWIW, burglars do sometimes test doors randomly. This is speaking from experience of being almost-burgled while my door was unlocked.


I had my car robbed a few weeks ago, they took a 4 year old GPS and $2 in change.

I still feel wronged (it's a little annoying) but I still don't lock my doors (the amortized cost seems to be about $15/year where I tend to park. It's 99% about the time/money trade-off and 1% about what's morally right.




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