> I suspect it’s hard to actually consistently make 500$/day breaking into peoples homes IMO the cheapening of technology has made a difference with this. When

> I suspect it’s hard to actually consistently make 500$/day breaking into peoples homes IMO the cheapening of technology has made a difference with this. When my (then not yet) ex-wife was burglarized, Just her laptop and a camera gave the criminal 900$ at a pawn shop [0]. [0] - which BTW, fun thing about this, if your insurance covers 'replacement cost' you are better off not finding your items at a pawn shop. Most state laws are written such that as long as the pawn shop collects fingerprints/ID, the person who was stolen from can get their items back, but must pay the pawn shop back what they paid the thief for it. Insurance will happily pay that instead but still take your deductible out. (It worked out OK for me, the wedding ring was among the stolen items, never got pawned and that covered the deductible and then some... eventually helped pay for the lawyer lol)