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    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.

    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.

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    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.

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