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[quote=Anonymous]From my friend that was a public defender who represented a lot of buglarers:

— burglaries are different than home invasions.  Burglars looks for people on vacation or at work/school or possibly sound asleep — they don’t want to run into people and will try to get out if they are surprised by someone.  Home invaders don’t care or are affirmatively looking for people.
— burglars dislike dogs because they are loud and unpredictable — maybe they can shoot them but it’s hard because they move fast, have muscle, don’t have a big open chest target like a human.
— many burglars are unarmed or have unloaded guns because the penalities are so much higher for robbery with a loaded weapon.

Not from my friend but I know home invaders will often tie people up and use their ATM cards for cash.  They’ve been doing that for over 30 years.

As to what burglars steal, computers and nice bikes all have good resale value.  And still TVs.  Wallets are good for cash but also credit cards that can be used quickly to buy cash cards.  I think some steal jewelry even though the resale value generally is bad — my sister had all my grandmother’s jewelry stolen.  It broke her heart and the burglar probably got a few hundred for the lot of it, as it was mostly costume or very simple things with very small stones.  
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