Securing your home is very important. Just the other day I saw a data from FBI’s website that made me reassess our home security. The data is pretty scary especially if you see the city where you live in has the highest burglary rate. The table presents a statistics based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports. The data is for the whole year of 2007 and was published at FBI’s website in September 2008. I scanned the burglary rate and found the 5 cities that have the highest rate in 2007:

1. Rockford, Illinois – 2,996 2. Memphis, Tennessee – 2,183 3. St. Louis, Missouri – 2,093 4. Detroit, Michigan – 2,064 5. Cleveland, Ohio – 2,057After reading the statistics, I was prompted to check on all the installed door alarm at our front and back doors. I also shared the information to my sister who lives alone.