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    Home Defense Plans

    What additional measures have you taken or new projects undertaken due to the recent unrest? Do you live in an urban or rural environment and how has that influenced your planning?

    Cameras?

    Reinforced doors?

    Ideas?

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    What are appropriate tactics for dealing with rioters that show up in residential neighborhoods/subdivisions that are destroying vehicles in driveways, climbing on roofs of homes, and vandalizing homes? In spite of your home security system...
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    I'm in small town IA so I haven't done anything additional because I haven't seen the teeming masses yet.

    As usual my first line of defense is motion detector spotlights and dogs. Spotlights trigger dogs, makes me investigate. Usually it's some kind of critter like a cat or something. I've got a lot of experience with person / persons in the yard late, late at night when I used to live in Ft. Lauderdale. Not sure I'd advocate the stuff I used to do as the best plan of action.

    Again, this stuff is very zip code dependent. Everyone knows where they live and the likelihood of people pulling shit. Plan accordingly. My standard plan was only seriously modified once when people were trying to shut down interstates after the Trayvon Martin shootings. I adjusted accordingly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by prepare View Post
    What are appropriate tactics for dealing with rioters that show up in residential neighborhoods/subdivisions that are destroying vehicles in driveways, climbing on roofs of homes, and vandalizing homes? In spite of your home security system...

    You should have some idea of local government sentiment, feelings of local CLEOs and whatever Castle Doctrine laws may or may not exist. Respond accordingly. Sometimes you have to go Korean rooftop defenders, sometimes you have to just count on insurance to rebuild.

    I would watch the Kyle situation as a basic barometer of how the winds are blowing with this current threat.
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    Suburbia. So it's a mix. You could be driving on a 5 lane road with strip malls then turn on a side street and be back in 1775. I live in a townhouse in a medium size development so I wouldn't be able to do anything serious even if I wanted to.

    Reinforced doors don't do anything when there's a garage door size window next to it and a sliding glass basement door. Only way to reinforce that is to brick it a up. Besides, the last 6 months haven't been kind to my wallet so I can't do much with any serious cash unless I dip into my savings.

    There are some little things I could do but those would have to be deployed right at the onset of a riot, only on my property and then make sure the neighbors don't accidentally come across it

    Cameras....I have been thinking about them even before all this. I have to get serious about it but I don't want anything that goes to a cloud/google/wifi.....etc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arik View Post
    Suburbia. So it's a mix. You could be driving on a 5 lane road with strip malls then turn on a side street and be back in 1775. I live in a townhouse in a medium size development so I wouldn't be able to do anything serious even if I wanted to.

    Reinforced doors don't do anything when there's a garage door size window next to it and a sliding glass basement door. Only way to reinforce that is to brick it a up. Besides, the last 6 months haven't been kind to my wallet so I can't do much with any serious cash unless I dip into my savings.

    There are some little things I could do but those would have to be deployed right at the onset of a riot, only on my property and then make sure the neighbors don't accidentally come across it
    Better yet, preempt and if you have someone friendly in the HOA have them see about getting it raised at a meeting and get them thinking about proactive community-protection measures and acceptable home-security enhancements. Point out that Rochester can happen anywhere.
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    I'm in farm country... whole town has maybe 1,300 people. I did go shooting the other day... make sure I can still hit something if need be. I'm across the street from the local IGA, so I can lend a hand if it gets targeted.
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    As posted by Arik, reinforced doors do squat when there's a window next to your door and a chair/decorative piece on the porch to throw through it.

    First things first. Determine what your budget is. Then determine what your actual, real life threat is. Is an antifa hoard bum rushing your house like wwz or is the neighboorhood punk trying doors on the cars parked outside to go for a joyride?

    Be honest with what your threats are, and then strengthen within your budget. I have seen a $20 amazon door block take 8 hits from a ram in a rundown apartment building. It doesn't have to be expensive or gucci to harden your home.

    Easy things for a 80% solution for less than $50
    - Park your cars in the garage. If you can't, lock them, clean out anything you can see through the window, and take your garage door remote in the house with you.
    - turn the lights on outside ALL night. Throw some leds in there and you electric bill will be negligible.
    - don't put your new tv/electronic/gucci box out on the curb with the trash. That just screams I have nice things in here.
    - replace the screws in your door hinges and strike plate with 3in ones

    Accept that with enough motivation, people are getting in your house. Plan accordingly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondback View Post
    Better yet, preempt and if you have someone friendly in the HOA have them see about getting it raised at a meeting and get them thinking about proactive community-protection measures and acceptable home-security enhancements. Point out that Rochester can happen anywhere.
    Not that type of HOA. It isn't local, comprised of people living in this neighborhood. Their location is 45 minutes away, meetings are once a year and it's corporate so whatever you're thinking the answer is "NO". The childrens playground, basketball and tennis courts have been closed for 6 months due to "insurance policy". They wouldn't even let a neighbor build his wheelchair bound dad a ramp.


    You know know what they'll tell you about proactive protection!?!? Call the cops and you have insurance!

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    My current residence is an interior subdivision in a larger guard gated development, in an affluent, homogeneous suburb 40 minutes west of Ft. Lauderdale. When the Floyd riots, I mean, protests, began some time ago, a local group of blm type idiots, wanted to block the roads leading to the guard gates, local LE stopped that from happening in a most efficient manner, actually more LEOs than protestors, so that never came to fruition.
    I'm not concerned that the unwashed masses would venture into my area, or to my home, but anything is possible. As such, motion sensors, automatic lights, impact doors and windows, discreet security cameras, an ever alert protection trained guard dog, a supplemental 15 lb ferocious llasa apso :-) and a very well armed homeowner should keep things fairly secure should the barbarians breech the gates.

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