Robert Handa is a reporter for NBC Bay Area.
The affluent Bay Area city of Atherton, California, which has seen a dramatic rise in home burglaries this year, is using a unique method to catch perpetrators. The Atherton Police Department recently turned about 50 homes into “bait houses,” where they're embedding tracking devices into items of property they believe burglars will want to take.
Resident and homeowner John Maulbetsch said he's impressed with the idea. “Basically, I don’t like surveillance much, but I think this is an effective scheme,” he said. Police acknowledge the bait houses are similar to bait cars, which are designed to tempt car thieves, but they said they're not trying to entice burglars. “We are not setting homes up to where, ‘Hey! come here. This is the house that we want you to burglarize.
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