chris wrote:I live in an apartment so I can't change the locks...it's a standard 5-pin SC1 Schlage deadbolt. Honestly though, unless you actually have a door frame that is reinforced with a quality door (with no windows in it like so many front doors do), then putting a hi-sec lock in is pointless. If there is something I want to steal that bad, or I want to murder you and your family, I will just kick your door in.
Same with me, apartment with a schlage deadbolt. And a lock in the handle, both keyed alike. Nothing special.
This is so true about the door frame, too.
I came home one day to see that my doorframe had been messed with, the trim taken entirely off in order to (I think) mess with the locking mechanisms.
I didn't invest in better locks. I invested in discreet camera equipment for my entry way and apartment and planned better when I leave. I alert the people in my building now to my absence, and always try to have someone stay at my house if I am planning to be away. Between that and the fact that I advertise that my apartment is under surveillance, I hope it will be enough to deter a would be thief or attacker.
In the end, I am my own last line of defense. (As a single woman living on her own, security is something I think about fairly often.)
But failing prevention, my intention is to help in the arrest and prosecution of any perpetrator that messes with me or mine.
*edited for grammar and syntax
Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:02 am 
