13 Worst States To Be A Burglar

[Onkel Neal]

Hey, I'm pretty ticked off, I thought Texas would have been one of them, if not #1 :/\\!!

http://renters.apartments.com/13-worst-states-to-be-a-burglar?frontdoor=outbrain

By now, you hopefully know how important it is to protect yourself, your apartment, and your possessions from burglary. But do you know how the law is protecting you? Did you know burglars can get life in prison for theft in South Carolina? Or that if a burglar is "a known boxer" in Pennsylvania, their fists count as a lethal weapon? We searched through data on residential burglary to come up with a list of the 13 states with the toughest burglary penalties in America. The effects of being tough on thieves might surprise you.

We scoped legislative codes in all fifty states (and DC) to find maximum and minimum burglary sentences and fines, then searched through actual prison population data to find out how long the average burglar really spends in jail. We factored in Stand Your Ground and Castle Doctrine laws, which allow homeowners and apartment-dwellers to protect themselves with deadly force in the event of a burglary.

Want to know whether your state is one of the ones that's hardest on burglars? The 13 toughest states for residential burglary, in order of maximum time and fines, are: Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Montana, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Florida, Tennessee, Illinois, and Maine. The average minimum sentence in these states is 2.5 years, while the rest of the country averages under a year for burglary offenses. In fact, in South Carolina and Virginia, thieves can get locked up for life, and Alabama has a maximum of 100 years behind bars.

[Jimbuna]

Alabama 100 years!! :o

[Sailor Steve]

Utah doesn't need tough burglary laws. We don't expect them to make it that far. :O:

[STEED]

Come to the UK our doors are always open, free tea and coffee with a slice of chocolate cake.

[Wolferz]

Come to the UK our doors are always open, free tea and coffee with a slice of chocolate cake.


I guess your burglars have nothing to fear other than a truncheon or the occasional fireplace poker.:03: In my neck of the woods, burglars get shot coming or going. The police tell us if the burglar falls out the door, drag his sorry hide back inside.

[STEED]

I guess your burglars have nothing to fear other than a truncheon or the occasional fireplace poker.:03: In my neck of the woods, burglars get shot coming or going. The police tell us if the burglar falls out the door, drag his sorry hide back inside.

I hope you got plenty of these signs up. :rolleyes:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warning-Trespassing-Violators-Will-Shot/dp/B0077T591W/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391879817&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=tespassers+will+be+shot+sign

[Wolferz]

We use this sign....:D
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/thCAX3CJQZ.jpg

I won't waste ammo on a thieving scumbag but, by the time I'm done with him, he'll wish I had.
Butt stroke to the head. Repeat as needed until no sign of life remains. Groin shots are just as effective.:huh:

[STEED]

We use this sign....:D
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/thCAX3CJQZ.jpg

:har: :up:

[Wolferz]

The dog is just the burglar alarm system. She's a bloody coward.:haha:

[Madox58]

While Nancy and I were in Hawaii, 3 people broke into our home and assaulted my Step-son and a friend.
They also tore up the house.
They got 3 years hard time.
What made it hard time was me contacting people and for a small donation?
Nasty things happened to them.
:D

[Aktungbby]

Seriously kids: as in the other post on English jammy dodgers, the best defense is a well bribed yard sign from the local alarm service; tip the guy a $20 and put it up with a few motion detector lights; for diehards, a little 3/8 foil strip in the window or small alarm stickers will do as well, along with a blinking red light camera (fake) over the front porch..The banditos will move on to other easier pickings after they case the joint! WOLFERTZ! no shooting unless the hole is predug and you have two bags of quicklime! No tryer of fact,(juror) 6 months after the fact, ever sees it the way you saw it along your gunsight at the time you were seeing it. Jurisprudential Monday-morning quarterbacking at its worst! You'll just be the bad guy.

[Armistead]

In our county burglars get shot, survivors get shot again...

[Jimbuna]

In our county burglars get shot, survivors get shot again...

Here in the UK it would be adviseable to put some sort of weapon in their hand after they have been incapacitated.

http://s21.postimg.org/cf1usz7bb/image.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

[Wolferz]

NO TRESPASSING
Survivors WILL be Prosecuted.

[Red October1984]

DC isn't a state though? :hmmm:

[Herr-Berbunch]

DC isn't a state though? :hmmm:

Well done, that's why it says -

all fifty states (and DC)And STEED!

Come to the UK our doors are always open, free tea and coffee with a slice of chocolate cake. Coffee and chocolate cake, how cosmopolitan, next you'll be voting for an M.E.P.. Scones, lad, scones. With jam and cream. And butter. :D

[Wolferz]

While Nancy and I were in Hawaii, 3 people broke into our home and assaulted my Step-son and a friend.
They also tore up the house.
They got 3 years hard time.
What made it hard time was me contacting people and for a small donation?
Nasty things happened to them.
:D

It's amazing what you can get with a carton of smokes.:03::yep:

[Wolferz]

DC isn't a state though? :hmmm:


They just think they're the epicenter of the universe.:-?

[Onkel Neal]

I guess your burglars have nothing to fear other than a truncheon or the occasional fireplace poker.:03: In my neck of the woods, burglars get shot coming or going. The police tell us if the burglar falls out the door, drag his sorry hide back inside.

Maybe that's why Texas doesn't rank as top toughest states on burglary... most of them don't survive.


I wish:shifty:

[Stealhead]

Funny thing is most that work in DC live in either Virgina or Maryland and commute to work.

It is interesting that of the the top 13 some have a low burglary rate and others have a high rate.

One factor to consider is that a burglar typically wants to break into a home or property while it is not occupied in which case it matters little if the owner packs heat or a baseball bat or teeth because they will not be home to use their weapon of choice anyway.In fact if you are after firearms the best time to hit a home which may have firearms in it is when no one is home.

I read some place that the typical burglar(who does it "professional and not in dope fiend desperation) will scope out a neighborhood to get a feel for the comings and goings then he'll find the most soft house and observe the owners patterns and hit the home when the neighborhood most likely is empty an that home is most likely to be empty.

My aunt in Ft.Lauderdale her home got broken into and a two cops live across the street and one cop car is always in the drive.So this person either did not care or figured the pattern of the cop neighbors.He only stole electronics and did not touch money in plan sight (strange).My aunt's house was the soft house hers being the only one that did not have an alarm or a sign that claimed so I know people who just steal an ADT sign and put in their yard a clever one can easily look for the boxes and call that bluff.

Personally I prefer not to advertise what is inside my home including firearms so I have no signs up at all. I think that actually makes someone think that you have something that they might want if they see a sign that implies that you have guns and that is what they want.Well then they might wait for a time for you to be absent and take your guns.If they are dumb enough to try it while I am home well they'll know I have guns because they will be staring down the barrel of one it will be a surprise package kind of like Cracker Jacks but better because they get a free ride to jail and when they arrive at the jail they get a new set of clothes.

My truck has no signs or stickers related to firearms because I do not want some jerk seeing them and then breaking in to try and get any that might be inside.

Thing is if someone picks your house or your vehicle or you it is on like it or not.It is most easy to avoid being the target of crime when you are on your feet just make it clear that you are paying attention to your surrounds muggers like to surprise people screwing around with phones and such not the alert person.I check my six pretty often while on foot in public.Honestly the place I feel most exposed is when pumping fuel.Usually I will stand in front of my vehicle and stand facing my vehicle or I stand by the pump with my back up against it.With a tractor-trailer I sometimes sit behind the cab.Never been mugged or robbed but I did once catch a guy in the process of breaking into my pick up he learned the hard way that I can brawl pretty well.

[Wolferz]

Situational awareness is a must when you're out in public. My little brother got mugged at gunpoint in Memphis, while sitting in his vehicle at a busy gas station.
I've run from New York to Los Angeles and many points in between and never got mugged. I normally don't carry more than a dollar in change. But I do carry a sharp boot knife if a mugger wants to tango:shucks:.

[Ducimus]

Utah doesn't need tough burglary laws. We don't expect them to make it that far. :O:

I'm not sure if this extends to the rest of the state but in "Happy valley", people tend to leave their front doors and garage doors unlocked, making it REALLY easy for burglars. In fact I read an article on KSL some time ago saying burglarly was on the rise because people make it easy for them.

On the other hand, i'm guessing every 1 out of 2 people are gun owners after the "Great Gun Store run of 2013", so no, they probably wouldn't make it very far if the owners home. :O: