Re:Watched: Police are stockpiling databases with personal i...
by vkou on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:57PM
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They also prefer to do so in countries other then the US, because they are there to burgle, not to get into a potentially dangerous altercation with the resident.
Nothing good will come out of burgling an occupied house.
1. You may be identified - this will quickly shut down your criminal career.
2. You may be physically harmed.
3. You may physically harm the resident, which will turn your crime from a police-don't-really-care burglary into a violent robbery.
What you're missing is that in the US, criminals in almost all the states and cities know there's a good chance their targets have guns in their homes, so they generally choose to burglarize them when unoccupied.