What Japanese Police Tell Every Senior Living Alone (Burglars Skip These Homes)

If you live alone and every decision at the door is yours: www.thesafehousebook.com The Safe House is my mother's house written down, from One Door, Two Locks and the gravel that shouts to the call-back rule taped beside her telephone, with seven evenings to put each layer on yours. 482 pages, 86 chapters, every claim in the source ledger. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund. I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan. Everyone tells you living alone makes yours the easy house on the street. That's not how Japanese police see it. They treat the person who is home in the daytime as the street's best witness, and they hand her a short list of decisions to make once, on a calm afternoon, so she never has to make them on the spot. This walks through nine things from the lists Japanese police publish, four of them free, starting with the latch on your windows and ending with the officer who comes to the door. At the end, what my mother does every Sunday night when I call, and why it explains the other eight. One point goes to America without a fight: your phone already sorts strangers better than my mother's little grey box ever will, and many American police departments will walk your property for free if you only ask. If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me what your police department said when you asked about a free home security survey. Chapters 0:00 What the alarm salesman told her 0:54 The latch that was never a lock 1:44 My mother's two locks aren't the same age 2:49 Yes, the officer really comes to the door 3:48 The side of your house nobody sees 4:46 How she knows who's coming from the kitchen 5:21 The man in the clean work jacket 6:28 What your house says while you're away 7:00 The phone is a door too 8:23 The best witness on your street 9:17 The ninth, and where the other eight came from 10:22 What my mother does every Sunday night 11:50 One phone call this week #LivingAlone #HomeSecurity #JapanVsAmerica #CrimePrevention #BurglaryPrevention