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A frightening sound for any car owner.
But more often than not, the alarm doesn’t even go off during car break-ins.
Studies show that 90 percent of car break-ins occur because people forget to lock their own doors.
That seems to be a problem here in Syracuse, as the city sees over one hundred more car break-ins per year than the national average.
But that doesn’t frighten one local student, who believes that his car is safe in his apartment complex.
(SOT 1: ALEX)
(“Our building does as much as they can with a fence, and something that you have to scan through to get into there without jumping it. And having cameras, I feel like they are doing a whole bunch already. There’s probably a lot you just can’t really avoid.”)
(Track 2: JOE)
Alex Servis is a current student at ESF, and lives in an apartment complex off campus. Coming from a small town area where break-ins are a dime a dozen, he understands he has to be extra careful around this city.
(SOT 2: ALEX)
(“All I try to do is keep my car locked and not show that I have anything in there.”)
(Track 3: JOE)
Alex says he sometimes double and even triple checks to make sure he doesn’t leave any valuables in his car, well at least nothing that he thinks would be of value to anyone else.
(SOT 3: ALEX)
(“The most I have in my trunk that you can ever see is like a pair of climbing shoes and a skateboard, so not really something that someone’s going to break into my car and be like oh yes I got climbing shoe, used shoes and a board. Cool.”)
*** Joe Standup ***
(“Leaving your doors unlocked can allow a thief to get into your car in just a matter of…
seconds.”)
(Track 4: JOE)
Madison Vono is the operations manager at the apartment complex that Alex lives in. She says they try and maximize security to the best of their ability, even putting multiple security cameras up throughout the property in case any residents experience something like this so that they can help them.
(SOT 4: MADISON)
(“I’ll ask them when they found that out and when was the last time they had gone to their car just so I can narrow down a time frame. And then we’ll look through the cameras and see if we can see anything.”)
(Track 5: JOE)
Madison still says the best piece of advice she can give is.
(SOT 5: MADISON)
(“Lock your car. And even if you don’t lock your car don’t leave anything valuable inside of your car.”)
(Sig Out: JOE)
In Syracuse I’m Joe Trently, NCC News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC NEWS)- The Department of Public Safety for Syracuse University reported 13 home break-ins on East Campus over the school’s winter break. But what about automobile break-ins? Syracuse has a higher number of automobile break-ins per year than the national average. How are students preparing for possible break-ins this semester?
Alex Servis is a current student at ESF. He lives in an apartment complex off campus. Alex is from a small-town area in Pennsylvania and is not used to the high break-in rate that Syracuse has. However, Alex is not too concerned with the number of break-ins, and always takes security measures very serious whenever he leaves his car.
“I always double check and lock my car,” Servis said. “I also try not to leave anything valuable in my car that someone can get to. The most valuable things I leave are my skateboard and some climbing shoes, so I don’t think someone will be too happy if they break in and only get those items.”
Servis also believes that his apartment complex does a good job with security measures both on the inside and outside.
“They have a fenced in parking lot with a gate you need to get through,” Servis said. “They also have cameras everywhere and if anything does happen, they go over the security footage with you to see if they can get down to the bottom of the incident.”
Madison Vono is the operations manager for Alex’s apartment complex. She touched on some of the precautions that tenants can take.
“Always lock your car,” Vono said. “Even if your car is an auto-lock, double and even triple check it, and make sure you don’t leave anything that you think is valuable in there.”
Studies show that 90% of automobile break-ins are caused by people not locking their doors.
