A 1972 Congressional Record reveals the extraordinary claims surrounding a pioneering property identification program. On March 13, 1972, Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin introduced federal legislation intended to expand a burglary prevention program that had...
It’s not possible to develop an effective Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) unless every fixed and non-fixed asset, the world round, is marked, as per NASA, with a “human-readable […] Unique Identification Number (License Tag).” [NFS...
According to the FBI, attacking the incentive to steal is something alarm systems, security cameras and GPS/WiFi systems don’t do well. That’s because security-minded people are missing a key detail for arresting and convicting criminals: the need to mark...
The following is a literature review entered into Chat GPT to find articles that show measurable reductions in property crimes using Operation Identification and related marking systems. Burglary decreased 33% in Seattle and about 25% in St. Louis among participating...
Operation Identification, the companion to Neighborhood Watch, was, and remains, a critical part of the five pillars of crime prevention, which also includes neighborhood associations, National Night Out and 911. The first [Operation ID] program was begun in 1963 by...
Think of the Louvre jewel heist and what went wrong and how it could have been even worse. Did CCTV, alarms systems and security guards work? Could there have been injuries and deaths? It’s not usually thought of as a security system and it’s no longer...
