Consumers also seem to be convinced.
NewsChannel5's Brad Harvey reports that a growing number of people are buying burglar alarms. Ronald Ricotta, president of 911 Security in Fairlawn, Ohio, said that business is booming. You're 50 percent more likely to get broken into in the suburbs, where 10 years ago, you weren't. Some national surveys estimate that the security business is growing at about 15 percent a year. Many of her neighbors have security systems, and lately, there's been some trouble.