Safety

Off-the-Job Safety: How Safe Is Your Home from Burglars? [Photo Gallery]

Oct. 31, 2016

With the holidays coming up – and with them, holiday travel – how safe is your home from burglars? The investigative team from Portland, Ore. television station KGW News sent a 17-question survey to 86 inmates serving time in the Oregon Department of Corrections for burglary, asking – among other things – how they chose their victims, what security measures worked and didn’t work and what were the high-value items they looked for.

Sandy Smith

The investigative team from Portland, Ore. television station KGW News sent a 17-question survey to 86 inmates serving time in the Oregon Department of Corrections for burglary, asking – among other things – how they chose their victims, what security measures worked and didn’t work and what were the high-value items they looked for.

Here are the questions and the answers. For quotes from the inmates and more detailed responses, see this article from Kyle Iboshi of KGW News.

About the Author

Sandy Smith

Sandy Smith is the former content director of EHS Today, and is currently the EHSQ content & community lead at Intelex Technologies Inc. She has written about occupational safety and health and environmental issues since 1990.