Depends on the alarm. Some take special equipment, some take a magnet, but that won’t get you by the motion detectors.
Just avoid simplisafe and you are doing at least the bare minimum.
Id honestly just recommend good locks, proper door fitment and security laminate on your windows for the vast majority of people.
I see the American media as softballing fascism, or they’re just outright complicit.
No one will call shit what it is, and every fucking thing in the news needs to be both-sides-ed.
This doesn’t help with the less educated grasping these basic concepts, nor does the massive stigmatization of intelligence and critical thinking, nor does the attacks on institutional education.
There’s laws constantly being passed in the form of ‘vouchers’ to drain public school funds and funnel American kids into Christian indoctrination, and our public schools are now dramatically underfunded.
So I guess I understand why more than half the population just straight up ignores politics. because reality here is really depressing.