[instaheat]

My experience with cameras is as follows.

Flipping a house in gentrifying neighborhood. House burglarized a total of 3 times.

After first time, installed cameras covering every possible angle.

Both 2nd and 3rd time - They wore masks and did so in the early morning hours (3am-5am) Had several people case the house without masks. Either they didn't notice the cameras or they didn't care.

3rd time I had some choice words for the foe through my Video doorbell and let him know I would be there before the police and suggested he be gone before I get there. I got there in 10 minutes flat ready to beat him to a pulp with a tire iron.

I wish we instituted harsher punishments for thieves when they get caught. It may be unpopular opinion, but I am glad I have the right to kill someone and defend my property if I see fit if they're in a ski mask ready to take my things.

[ohdannyboy]

I sympathize with your mentality, but you most certainly do not have that right. With a few very limited exceptions in Texas, in the US you have to be defending against a deadly threat. Breaking into your home with ski masks is usually seen as a deadly threat, but that doesn't apply to a flipper house when you aren't even inside.

If you arrived to the house and killed them with a tire iron you would likely have been charged with murder.

I strongly recommend reading The Law of Self Defense by Andrew Branca.

[instaheat]

Will do. I actually started staying in the house just prior to the sale to prevent any further issues. With my vehicle onsite, had a lot less activity going on.

Between my vehicle and the “I’ll shoot you” signs, no one disturbed the residence.

It was a pain sleeping on a blow up mattress for two weeks.

[more_corn]

I’m not sure you have that right. Killing somebody for taking your things is murder. If you want to lie and say you feared for your life you could get away with it. But it’s still murder. And you’d be getting away with murder. So Mr law and order. Might want to bone up on the whole law thing.

[archsurface]

You don't know what they're willing to do to take your things. Are you really going to sit around to find out?

[ikekkdcjkfke]

It's instinctive. Your looking at living with PTSD the rest of your life after a home invasion. Should defo be more harsher punishments. Love and aggression live very close in the brain, so if you ever get kids you'll know what kind of feelings get stirred up

[instaheat]

Well, I'm in Texas, so....

[willcipriano]

If you like the protection of the law stay within the bounds of it.

[seanmcdirmid]

The big problems with cameras is police don’t care about the videos because they don’t care about property crimes anymore. Maybe the police will care later after enough home owners get fed up?

[instaheat]

In my experience, I got the vibe of "we don't give a shit"

Oh yeah, and before anyone says that is what insurance is for... HA! They don't cover that shit.

[NotACop182]

You are making stuff up. Please show me where police or the law on burglaries is being handled differently. It’s a felony and always has been. These cases are investigated.