What do robbers steal when they break into homes

[Anonymous]

People don’t really have much cash around anymore and tvs are mounted to the walls. Laptops and tablets may be all sorts of random place and aren’t like a desk top that’s obvious and quick to grab. Phones are with the person. Jewelry obviously but at least among my friends - “real” valuable jewelry is so much less popular than for our mothers and we have little valuable jewelry beyond our rings.

I hear about bikes and strollers being stolen from open garages bc they can be a quick resell online.

Just curious what robbers actually take now that cash and tvs are out. There have been a couple attempted breakins on our street lately. We have a nice home but practically speaking our cookware is probably the most expensive thing just sitting around and I doubt they’re stealing cookware! But maybe they are?

[Anonymous]

Laptops, designer bags, watches

[Anonymous]

guns

[Anonymous]

Seems like a lot of targeted jobs lately to homes where people have alot of jewelry

[Anonymous]

Cash, guns, prescription drugs, portable electronics

[Anonymous]

Keys for expensive cars??

[Anonymous]

Guns and drugs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keys for expensive cars??

This definitely happens. It's an easy way to get caught, but people do it.

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of international families where I live and the women have very expensive jewelry, and yes handbags, watches, guns as well. Also ID documents

[Anonymous]

The tablets, laptops, TVs and other electronics are usually highly visible, OP, and the first thing they go for. No one I know has a mounted TV. They can look around for jewelry.

[Anonymous]

I think you mean “thieves,” “housebreakers,” or perhaps “burglars.” “Robbery” requires force or the threat of force. It is impossible to “rob” a house.

In any event, people who break in and steal from unoccupied houses typically are looking for cash, drugs, firearms (as noted by a PP), and other easily unloaded items, but they will steal anything they can carry that they think they can sell quickly or use themselves.

[Anonymous]

People just have guns sitting around? I’ve never thought about it but I guess I always envisioned them in gun safes hidden up high or something

[Anonymous]

VCRs and the hi-fi stereo.

[Anonymous]

Guns, drugs (pills), booze, cash, laptop, phone - if they are high end and planned, it will be jewelry, art, guns

[Anonymous]

Things they can sell: silver, china, crystal, power tools, electronics (phones, headphones, iPads, computers), prescription drugs, jewelry, guns, cameras, art, designer bags/shoes, designer coats, checkbooks, sunglasses, jars of change/money, passports.

Someone in my neighborhood had their house ransacked over Thanksgiving, including their garage where they took a large shovel that had been a gift and had someone's initials engraved into the handle. This same shovel was found inside another house in another city where it had been used to break the glass on the back door to gain entrance and they just left the shovel there. The police then were able to connect that robbery to my neighbors and eventually caught them. They were with a traveling group of organized people out of PA.