I live 6 miles from downtown Detroit. I never lock the doors when we are home. Half the time they aren't locked when we leave the house. Never had a problem.
Right before I got married, I lived in (what I thought) was a nice, safe security apartment building with a guarded entrance and locked outside doors — that people would prop open all the time.
I was home alone one day and heard someone go down the hallway trying to open every door — including mine!!
I was scared out of my wits, and Thanked God that I knew enough to lock the front door at all times.
I called the cops but by then the perp was long gone - the cops told me that people leaving their front door unlocked is how burglars and thieves often get inside homes - because so many people don’t bother to lock their front door. If someone is home (according to the cops), they may be assaulted or killed.
I’ve never forgotten it.
Recently, my daughter told me her former roommates were burglarized in the middle of the night by a criminal who got in through an unlocked door that one of the roommates had left unlocked inadvertently. Thank God, none of them woke up, they might have been killed (according to the police). My daughter had moved out the day before.
It shook us all up to the bone, and Thank God none of them woke up during the burglary.
I will NEVER be in my home without the front door being locked - and I have two large dogs, am armed and trained.
Why set yourself up?
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“I live 6 miles from downtown Detroit. I never lock the doors when we are home. Half the time they aren’t locked when we leave the house. Never had a problem.”
Neither did this young woman. Until...