Burglaries are on the decline in the United States — because “everybody has everything now”:
For almost 20 years, Mathis burglarized homes to support a drug habit. He only got caught a few times. Mathis says he stopped breaking into homes because there’s just no money in it anymore.“If you’re going to do a burglary, you need to have some buyers,” Mathis says. “Everybody has everything now.”
Mathis says there’s just too much on the street already. Everyone he knows already has a digital camera, iPod knockoffs and pirated DVDs shipped in from China.
“And if it’s not new, a lot of people don’t even want to fool with it,” Mathis says.
Forget about last year’s video games and old laptops, Mathis says. And don’t even bring a VCR or boxy TV to the street.
“You can get a TV for nothing almost,” he says. “People are giving them away now.”