It is much, much less expensive—think tax dollars—to prevent a crime than to go to the time and expense of arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating criminals. Being the victim of a crime is also hugely traumatizing and costly—think insurance deductibles and hospital...

In common parlance, assets are often thought of as money; property is often thought of as real estate. But assets and property have another meaning that has to do with all the stuff large institutions, small businesses and homeowners own. Being Published in "Property...

The Scouts of America offer a crime prevention merit badge. The details and workings of Operation Identification has been published for over 40 years in the last two manuals. As you can see by the pictures, Neighborhood Watch and Operation ID are intimately connected....

Most people will assume that "asset managers" means people who oversee a pool of accumulated wealth. But there is a whole other hidden use for the phrase that means the professionals who keep track of the "personal property" that belongs to large institutions....

Whenever I do a presentation or make small talk with people about MyPropertyID, it is inevitable that I'll hear a story about a theft or loss of personal property. In many instances, the owner can point to a piece of property and swear it belongs to them, but unless...

Imagine if citizens said, “I don't need smoke detectors. I don't really care if a part of my house burns down. I'll just turn it into insurance.” Yet that's exactly the attitude we have when it comes to burglary and theft. Why do millions of us allow ourselves to be...

Burglary is a gateway crime committed mostly by teens and young adults. It’s a category of crime like an oil slick—spread thin across the nation. There are millions of property crimes reported each year, but the number is thought to be double that. Sadly, only 10% of...

Very few of us are trained to run toward danger. Law enforcement professionals are trained to do exactly that. The rest of us are taught to run for safety or shelter in place. There are five, non-heroic ways to help police lower crime rates. They are low-cost,...

'Tis always the season for burglary prevention. Burglaries are by far the most common crime in the United States, and a whopping 90% are never solved. It's an epidemic with a simple solution called Operation Identification. Operation ID was developed in 1963 by the...

You know the old cliche, What’s good for the goose is good for the gander? Well, in matters of securing property like TVs, game systems, computers and printers, this couldn’t be truer. (FYI, the tags are an important warning, but it's the stolen items' serial numbers...