The $12 Japanese Door Plate That Makes Burglars Give Up

If you check your front door twice before bed but have never looked at it from the sidewalk: www.thesafehousebook.com The Safe House walks your house the way a stranger does, with the house audit from the outside, the five-minute standard, and one door two locks. 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 assumes a door is only as strong as its lock. Japan's police look somewhere else first, the thin gap beside the latch, which on most Japanese front doors faces the street. Cover that gap and the door turns slow and loud for anyone without a key. This one starts with a flashlight check you can do tonight, then shows which plate fits a door that swings in and which fits a door that swings out, and the hinge layer that goes with them. At the end, the reason my mother's front door opens the way it does. One thing the American house does better: solid wood behind the trim, which is why a long screw does so much here and why many Japanese steel doors needed the plate in the first place. If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me which way your front door swings, and which of your doors showed you metal. Chapters 0:00 The line beside your door handle 1:01 What my flashlight found on the garage door 2:32 What burglars said about minutes and noise 3:54 The plate Japan's police tell you to fit 5:06 Why the famous plate won't fit your front door 6:55 The other side of the door 7:46 Where the American door wins 8:26 Why my mother's door opens the wrong way 9:46 One door tonight Sources National Police Agency of Japan, Sumairu Bohan 110 (intrusion methods and building-parts pages; residential intrusion-method figures, 2023) Osaka Prefectural Police, home security equipment and apartment crime-prevention pages Saga, Chiba and Nagano Prefectural Police, crime-prevention pages naming the guard plate Ibaraki Prefectural Police, lock guidance citing the Urban Crime Prevention Research Center intruder survey University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Understanding Decisions to Burglarize from the Offender's Perspective (2012) KGW, We asked 86 burglars how they broke into homes (2016) Cainz, guard plate product listing Home Depot, Prime-Line U 9511, U 9586 and U 9501 listings Lowe's, RELIABILT security door hinges #HomeSecurity #BurglaryPrevention #JapanVsAmerica #JapaneseHome #CrimePrevention