Anyone who keeps track of the direction that crime statistics are heading knows that the news just isnt good. Even though local police departments are fully staffed as they have never been before, property crimes continue to rise as jails and prisons continue to become overcrowded. One offshoot of all of this is that preventative law enforcement or proactive policing has been replaced by reactive police tactics that focus on solving crimes after they have been committed.

This means that you, as a home owner, are having to become more responsible for your own homes security and the trend doesnt appear to be changing any time soon. The good news is that home security systems have continued to become more reliable and sophisticated and also they have become far more affordable. Home security systems began to become readily available during the late nineteen-sixties and the early nineteen-seventies and back then they were basically trip switches on doors and windows connected to an alarm.

For anyone with any knowledge of the systems basic functions, they were quite simple to disable, so they were very unreliable. So many things have changed in home security systems since those early days and what is used now to protect homes, would be hardly recognizable to an installation technician back then. Trip mechanisms for widows and doors are still employed as components of modern alarm systems but they are far more secure and reliable.