6 Home Security Hacks Proven to Stop Break Ins

In this video, I share 6 proven home security hacks to help you prevent break-ins and secure your home. These simple yet effective tips can make a real difference in protecting your property and ensuring the safety of your loved ones.

Jason Hanson is a former CIA officer and the New York Times bestselling author of "Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life." His company trains celebrities, high-net-worth individuals, and everyday Americans in escape and evasion, hand-to-hand self-defense, evasive driving, firearms, home defense, and more.

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[libbyd]

If you put up alarm signs, put signs up for a system OTHER than the one you actually have. Each system has it's strengths and weaknesses. Let the more ambitions criminals think they have the work-around for your system and then they find out the hard way that your system is DIFFERENT than what they were expecting.

[justinblower]

1. Case your own neighborhood for security issues.
2. Put up an alarm sign in front of your house.
3. Install a driveway alarm.
4. Install solar-powered motion-sensitive lights outside your house
5. Install video cameras outside your house, especially around doors.
6. Install a commercial barricade on all exterior doors.
7. Have a way to defend yourself inside your home.

[sernani]

Good info, also growing up very poor in Buenos Aires we used cans of sodas, put 4 to 6 nuts and bolts inside the can tie a thin fishing line to the can opener tab set the can on the side of your path to the entry door and run the line to the opposite side and tie to a rock, bush etc. When the roaches walk up to your door, they will trip the line, and the can will move and make noises. Don't put it to close to your entry access since you need time to react. Remember, time buys you options.

[MAMAN]

I do security assessment professionally for a living. This information is 100% spot on and is exactly what I teach during my presentations. Remember folks, security comes in layers (fencing, lighting, cameras, signage, alarm, etc.) Two quick things I will say from current trends I am seeing. First, cameras. Consider going to a WIRED system if possible. Secure the DVR (inside a safe for example) and use a large UPS (battery backup). Why? We are seeing trends of home invasions/break ins where thieves are using multi-banded jammers and also cutting power to the house. What does that mean? If your cameras are wireless, the jammer will block the signal. Power goes out, DVR is useless. Same thing with alarm systems. If possible, go with a WIRED alarm system. I saw a home invasion recently where 4 dudes broke into a home and they had a jammer. Not only did it block the signals from the cameras, it also blocked the wireless alarm sensors. In short, the alarm system didn't even know the doors were breached because the sensors were jammed. The arriving Officers also noticed their radios were no longer receiving signal. Crazy stuff. I would also install a UPS system for your internet modem/router. Power gets cut, you will still have internet for cameras. Lastly, if you're getting a new home built, pay a little bit more and get the house pre-wired for alarm. It's well worth the investment.

[geobloxmodels]

Fences may not be a big deterrent, but they do serve another purpose. I live at the end of a dead end street with open space around. My fences would not stop a determined criminal, but if you cross my fence you deliberately trespassed. You didn't just take an innocent short cut across my yard. So, when my lights go on, and I see you standing right outside my window I can assume you have bad intent.

[JugglesGrenades]

You can also use the infrared driveway alarms on the exterior of the house. I can tell (from inside my bedroom) if someone is standing on the East, West, or South, outside my house. The North (front yard) is fenced with dogs....Big aggressive dogs. Bars on the inside of all exterior doors is probably the best advice you gave. If they are standing there kicking the door for 5 minutes, that gives you plenty of time to arrange an ambush inside.

[evox]

If you're willing to landscape your house for home security, put a gravel strip around your house and plant rose bushes around the windows. It's hard to be stealthy when walking on gravel, and a thorny bush is a deterrence to making entry through a window.

[rcampbell]

All solid stuff. As someone who has had his house broken into, I have been securing my home as a hobby for 20+ years. If you're concerned about home safety, research the 4 D's of Home Defense. Deter, Detect, Delay, Defend. Since Jason mentioned door security, consider Long Screws as they are much cheaper than special door hardware and are passive meaning once installed, there is nothing extra to do to secure your home.

[mikemission]

Throw a couple pairs of muddy size 16 men's work boots outside by the front & back doors. Normally when people see a huge pair of boots that means there's a huge guy inside the house so a would be burglar may move on to an easier target...

[greghirsch]

Thanks for the video. As a side note. If you’re going to use a knife or tomahawk get training on weapon retention and the use of edged weapons. The benefits of a firearm is distance. Those other options require getting close to someone.

[jackreacher.]

... family is the ultimate inspiration ... Jason Hanson is blessed ....

[_DB.COOPER]

My tips: Fences work, don’t be fooled. The frames break first not the doors so remove those short screws and replace them with long screws. I have a security system with cameras, I can monitor all around the outside and inside of my house. Install sliding window locks on all of your windows or cut dowel rods or pvc to insert where windows can’t be pried open easily. Everything we do is a deterrent, if somebody really wants to break in they will break in so take the appropriate measures to defend yourself. I don’t recommend posting pictures of yourself and family all over the internet also. I don’t even have a Facebook account.

[practicalguy]

If you're building a or renovating a home and have the space I'd build in a secure entry way for every outside door so if any criminals come in they are simply stuck trying to break in until the police arrive or they leave. These rooms can be disguised as enclosed foyers or mud rooms, the idea is the outside door is just a normal one that can be broken into, the inner door is the one that's reinforced with barricade etc... and would take a while to get into. Once the alarm goes off the criminals will likely leave seeing door number 2. Avoiding any confrontation is best.

[katana]

At 4:00 he describes what he has to do to get to his gun. I understand that he has young kids (and I live alone), but I got a chuckle out of it. I'd just reach for the holster bolted to the back of my headboard and let the fireworks begin.

[pugman]

After a robbery 35 years ago, we had a complete alarm system installed on every opening to the house. There have been two attempts in the past few years, but the system protected us.

[roybatty]

In UK we can’t defend ourselves. Police won’t bother to come out for a burglary, unless you’ve injured the intruder - then you’re the criminal and the intruder is the victim.

[frequentlycynical]

Many years ago I had a garage back in the alley. After it was broken into several times I bought large 1/2" red neon light from Radio Shack for $2 (RIP, RS.) I soldered some lamp cord with a plug and plugged it into an outlet. It was always on. I never had another break in. My Red Herring alarm system.

[robbyrocksoo]

Thanks for the tips. There was a tragic incident in our small town last year, when a guy on drugs broke into a young girls apartment, and killed her. She just moved out of her parents house a while before that. It was so sad that she had no self defense plan in place, and it cost her her life.

[mikekolczynski]

Shed got broken into.Installed some concentine wire around it. Put some Fith Ops perimeter alarms up with flash bangs, dye rounds, and pepper spray. Chained all items together with a massive chain. Put up a driveway alarm in the shed with a different tone than the rest of the property. Made my own electronic alarms with loud sirens. Some have motion sensors, some have trip wires.

[Al_is_XXX]

great to hear you talking about layers...that is the most important concept in securing your house ...no one solution is going to work every time...have several...