Featured Articles
- Remote Guarding Delivers A Knockout Blow to False Alarms
3.5.24 – Security Sales & Integration – Remote guarding moves the alarm industry from after-the-fact alerts and evidential information to stopping unlawfulness. Between Us Pros: Remote … - These States Have the Highest and Lowest Average Cybercrime Victim Losses
3.8.24 – SSI – D. Craig MacCormack – CoinJournal.net study analyzes data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center for 2022 and identifies losses per cybercrime victim. - Pro-Vigil Survey: 71% of Businesses Haven’t Incorporated AI Into Physical Security
3.8.24 – SSI Staff – More than half of the respondents in Pro-Vigil’s latest AI research endeavor are more worried about crime now than a year ago.
Business Tips
- 5 things all good bosses have in common
3.10.24 – Fast Company – Being the type of boss that people want to work for means you are less likely to have employees who quit, or who stay but aren’t engaged or productive. - Lithium-ion batteries don’t work well in the cold. Here’s why
3.10.24 – Fast Company – Lithium-ion batteries have risks that AA or AAA batteries don’t. - Emotion-tracking AI is making some workers’ challenges worse
3.9.24 – Fast Company – More than 50% of large employers in the U.S. use emotion AI aiming to infer employees’ internal states.
Life Safety
- KS: Smoke alarm saved homeowner, dogs from Kansas house fire
3.8.24 – JCPost – The resident reported she was awakened to the sound of a smoke alarm, exited the home and called 911. Upon further investigation, the resident’s home oxygen system, originally thought to have fed the fire, was likely not involved in the room and contents fire that displaced the resident and two dogs. - MD: Video shows door padlocked, students locked inside …
3.6.24 – WBFF – “However, they have to maintain compliance.” Video shows door padlocked, students locked inside Baltimore School as fire alarm sounds (WBFF).
Crime
- CA: Burglar sought after surveillance video shows him breaking …
3.5.24 – ABC7 Los Angeles – A burglar is being sought after surveillance video showed him breaking into a car wash in Duarte. - CA: Burglary suspect stuck in chimney calls 911 for rescue
3.6.24 – Los Angeles – A suspected burglar who got stuck in a church chimney in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday was taken into custody after calling 911 on himself and being rescued by firefighters. - CA: Do you know this burglar? His crew has hit 11 Mira Mesa …
3.8.24 – NBC 7 San Diego – Do you know this burglar? His crew has hit 11 Mira Mesa homes: SDPD … the suspects are tied to any burglaries outside of the Mira Mesa area. - CA: VIDEO: Home burglary spree suspect caught rummaging …
3.7.24 – fox5sandiego.com – The suspects appear to target mostly corner houses and enter the home through a rear sliding glass door, according to police. FOX 5/KUSI spoke … - FL: Young burglars seen on video breaking into Hollywood smoke …
3.7.24 – NBC 6 A group of young female burglars were caught on camera breaking into a Hollywood smoke shop, police said. The incident happened Tuesday at a store on Hollywood Boulevard near South 29th Terrace. Surveillance video showed one of the girls smashing a window at the business with a long object. - GA: Athens Police Department asks for public’s help identifying …
3.5.24 – WAAY 31 News – The Athens Police Department is looking for two men they say stole from a local pharmacy. - IN: 4 AM Burglar Turns Out to be a Large Raccoon
3.6.24 – YouTube · Inside Edition – Indianapolis cops are used to capturing intruders, but they’re usually of the human sort. Officers arrived at a residence to find out their robbery suspect was a raccoon! Body camera video captured around 4 o’clock in the morning shows officers surveying the home that was broken into by a masked bandit. The officer tried to talk down the suspect, but this raccoon didn’t take direction well. Inside Edition Digital has more of the hilarious encounter. - MI: Police Search For Man In Burglary At Dearborn Home
3.7.24 – Patch – Police said the man approached the front door of a home in the 7600 block of Barrie at 8 p.m. when he rang the doorbell and tried to open the … - ON: Kingston Police seek to identify suspect who fled after triggering alarm during break and enter
3.6.24 – (Kingston, Ontario) Kingston Police have released photos and are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect who attempted to break into a…
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