Attention : Robbers will attack your WiFi as well as Power

[mat200]

Robbers are targeting homes and accessing WiFi / blocking WiFi as well as turning off power after surveillance of homes.

Many Los Angeles residents aren’t reporting home burglaries, but real estate agent Diana Lavu Weems says they’re happening more often than people realize.





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What’s Happening With Los Angeles Burglaries | Diana Lavu Weems | Brian Wendling

May 14, 2025 California Insider Podcast
Many Los Angeles residents aren’t reporting home burglaries, but real estate agent Diana Lavu Weems says they’re happening more often than people realize. She shares firsthand accounts from her community, while LAPD Captain Brian Wendling explains how organized crews operate, what data shows, and why reporting matters.

Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:07 – How Organized Crews Are Targeting Homes
05:00 – Gated Communities Are Not Immune
08:40 – Local Observations vs. Official Crime Data
15:23 – Law Enforcement Confirms Broader Trends
18:37 – Types of Burglary Crews and Their Methods
24:08 – What Homeowners Can Do
28:10 – Why Reporting Crime Still Matters

 

[mat200]

 

[bigredfish]

I like my perimeter sensors.

For when we're not home, my home Alarm will notify me within 15-30 seconds if it loses signal, my cameras are going to alert me before they can actually get to them.

 

[JNDATHP]

And get a generator…

 

[Chokolinho]

I like my perimeter sensors.

For when we're not home, my home Alarm will notify me within 15-30 seconds if it loses signal, my cameras are going to alert me before they can actually get to them.

Which sensors do you use?

 

[bigredfish]

I’ve got old Guardline’s with the battery I change every year or so. Low tech that just works.

I think they were bought by eMacro

Dakota would be a similar product.

Basically 20ft from main entry doors and others scattered to alert on driveway or passing between houses

The idea is to buy me 30+ seconds at 3am to shake cobwebs, pull on pants, check cameras.

Way back 100yrs ago I was a volunteer fireman. Learned/conditioned to bounce out of bed within 5-7 seconds of the “tones” going off. That carried through to the perimeter alarm, still lay my pants out beside bed on floor arranged to more easily jump into them.

I’d rather have that time to have eyes open and gun in hand than to wait to hear the door being crashed in.

 

[Chokolinho]

I’ve got old Guardline’s with the battery I change every year or so. Low tech that just works.

I think they were bought by eMacro

Dakota would be a similar product.

Basically 20ft from main entry doors and others scattered to alert on driveway or passing between houses

The idea is to buy me 30+ seconds at 3am to shake cobwebs, pull on pants, check cameras.

Way back 100yrs ago I was a volunteer fireman. Learned/conditioned to bounce out of bed within 5-7 seconds of the “tones” going off. That carried through to the perimeter alarm, still lay my pants out beside bed on floor arranged to more easily jump into them.

I’d rather have that time to have eyes open and gun in hand than to wait to hear the door being crashed in.

I agree with you on all of that, of course. But they would also react to cats and martens, wouldn't they? Cats run across our path several times every evening.

 

[bigredfish]

No they have a sensitivity setting and range setting. For instance the ones closest to the doors I have angled up where the target would need to be 4ft and distance max of 23ft

You have to be smart about placement. I have a couple in tree trunks at about 5ft pointing towards the house 15ft and 25ft away. Lots of testing for angles and making sure it’s not aimed too low. Many folks slap them up without thinking or testing and wonder why critters set them off .

I can’t recall at the last house but at this one since May of ‘21 when I moved in to help mom, I recall 2 false alarms.

Both were coons that stood upright on a table imitating a small 4 1/2 human.

Bats dont set them off, nor coons or cats walking around like we have practically every night




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Sensor directly above camera facing door about 5ft up

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