"Paul J. Adam" wrote in message ...
It's entirely analagous to dissuading home-invasion robberies (hot
robberies) in favor of breaking in while the occupants are at work,
which I'd think that most people are in favor of.

But again, UK burglars tend to avoid occupied homes as well.

According to first-hand crime statistics (from the US and the UK
governments), burglary is more than twice as common in the UK than in
the US. It's a bit harder to compare actual times of burglaries due
to slightly different definitions, but in the US residential
burglaries are distributed 60% day / 40% night, while in the UK is 44%
light / 56 % dark. The UK government also says that 46% of burglaries
happen when the home in question is occupied. I can't find actual
numbers for the US, but the qualitiative statements all seem to imply
that the occupied/unoccupied split is more skewed than the day/night
split.

-jake