My patrol car is parked in front of my house as I write this. It does not have an alarm. My department mandates I remove any of my "gear" with a badge or department name on it from the car when I park it at my home. I am prohibited, by written policy, from storing any firearms in the car. It is either on me, locked up at the office, or at home in my safe.... but never stored in the car.
We have some intel from gang members in the area that they are targeting the homes of officers. They wait until the officer leaves the home and then burg the place... armed in case of wives etc. My partner had his house broken into within a few minutes of leaveing the house about 4 months ago. The only thing they took was his off-duty gun (no safe and only one gun in the home... he is a youngster and I am still working on him...one gun....oh my.. and now he doesn't even have that for off duty!)
Just thought I could add some fuel to the discussion....
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