Home Security Early Warning - John "Shrek" McPhee

[@andrewsolorzano9656]

You and your videos of knowledge are what the people of America need. Please keep the videos coming. Thank you for your sacrifices and service.

[@toddw6716]

Nothing beats a good dog. Anything moves and my dogs are on it. Also creates a distraction while I am waiting with my surprise. Bang, who was there!

[@TheKentuckyPatriot]

Agreed!

[@valdivia1234567]

Yes sir! I have 3 and they let me know EVERYTHING happening around my house.

[@nobodynoone2500]

As someone who used to read meters and do line work in "hostile" yards; a few treats and suddenly they get quiet and friendly. Dogs are not a deterrent to anyone good at what they do. Sure MOST criminals are crackheads, but not all are.

[@toddw6716]

@@nobodynoone2500 well good luck giving the dog a treat when he’s inside and your outside.

[@jonathanwilliams1746]

That’s not true when my doberman goes into drive she won’t take food from anyone not even me

[@gregstacia]

My dad was an 80 year-old Marine who tried to protect the tellers at his bank during a bank robbery in Reno Nevada. The last words out of his mouth before he was shot and killed were, “You son of a bitch.” I wish he was around to see your postings. I watch as many as I can that you could use. Thank you for the great work. Keep it up. Semper Fi.

[@billdye3530]

Trail cameras are great for security because you are alerted before someone is close to the house. Plus you won't believe what or who travels thru between midnight & sunrise.

[@CliffMcCauley]

True. I used to get home at 3am regularly (playing music) and for grins I usually backed into my driveway and cut the engine, then just sat to watch for a half hour. Creeps everywhere that were never around during daytime.

[@charliemancuso5690]

Free lesson on home security from former tier one leader. Legs better listen up. Happy New Year CSM.

[@jameshermes5576]

? I'm an ex leg .Australian infantry 5/7 mech now they have divided those to independent battalions got out 87.I don't really understand your comment.

[@charliemancuso5690]

@@jameshermes5576 Sorry to hear that. Legs are anyone that has not earned silver jump wings. It's a dirty word to a paratrooper. Nothing worse than. Let me know if you need further explaination.

[@jameshermes5576]

@@charliemancuso5690 I knew what a leg was ,just didn't know why he said ,legs better listen up

[@charliemancuso5690]

@@jameshermes5576 Cause they need all the help they can get. lol.

[@robopaul9]

Great explanation on cameras for detection vs identification

[@JohnDoe-xu2vx]

My nephew Lt Col John Bitonti was in charge of a LAV recon group that went door to door in Fallujah......so proud of him

[@Jake-jd7bd]

Shrek, you know what's an awesome warning device/in-home obstacle? Baby gates. Now that I have kids, I got gates up on my stairs and some doorways. Literally every person that comes to my house who doesn't have kids have no idea how to open them, and they make a ton of noise when you do try to open it or hop over it and it snags your foot. May sound silly at face value, but do a test with a buddy who doesn't have kids. Close the gate behind you and run up the stairs, watch how long it takes for him to follow you.

[@zackmorgan4500]

True! I've never used them but work in houses that have them and took a few to figure it out. I usually just stepped over, but like you said, that's not as easy as it sounds.

[@k9spjack]

As a 27 year veteran police officer, I've NEVER investigated a Home Burglary where the home had a Dog. But I've investigated countless Home Burglaries where they had video surveillance cameras. And the overwhelming majority of Burglars simply wore masks to avoid being identified on surveillance videos. So I agree with Mr. McPhee on the importance of Video Cameras. But if I had to pick between video surveillance cameras and my Dogs. I'm taking my Dogs all day long. And to use the words of criminals that I've interviewed over the years, "I don't fuck with anyplace that has a Dog!"

[@HighCountry81]

Does a chihuahua count?

[@MrWyvernfist]

@@HighCountry81 Yes

[@adammckenzie6074]

U have never seen a home invasion with dogs? They happen often. U bring a steak and lock the dog in the washroom. U would be shocked how many big bad guard dogs wont turn down a fat raw steak. If that doesn’t work a bullet does. This happens so dont give people fables hope. U must police a pretty good area cause i live in Toronto Canada and this shit happens

[@Peppep2024]

What a stupid comment 😂 Cameras, sensors, alarms, and a well trained armed individual willing to kill you over a dumbass dog. Also if your neighborhood has a shitload of dogs in it, a bark isn’t going to be noticed. Some people have dogs that bark at flys, ignore this stupid comment.

[@bennorwood]

I guess those with dog allergies are screwed…..

[@BurtSanders]

How about motion lights for nighttime events. Nothing sucks more than comfortably moving through the dark, then BAM, spotlights on you, and you're totally exposed, except when there's also a dog that looks at you and then gets up growling.

[@sethhughes2163]

Spot on my friend, all the way down to the game cameras! My driveway is a quarter mile to the parking area for guests and/or deliveries. Sixty acres is alot to watch... so doing a few things such as the beams shooting across the drive at 100' past the 2X6x 1/2" box tube gate... let's you know someone is committed... it is not wide enough to turn around without an 8 point turn... so if they do an about face... 3 cams get the plates, color and type,mfg.... and the " smile " for the camera portraits. In 28 years, I have only locked one vehicle in... and it was hilarious. Thanks for all the always to the point spot on content, I always enjoy your spin on it all! Respectfully, Seth

[@bryanmontgomery996]

Dakota Alert makes the BEST outdoor perimeter sensors. Very reliable and very few false alarms when positioned correctly. A little pricey but worth it.

[@TMats100]

Our house sits on a small acreage. We’ve had a driveway alarm since the house was completed. Home security system with cameras and a GSD.

[@jessehernandez3867]

I always say depends on how much security you need. As a Army Veteran. I would say you got to have 3 layers of security and 360. So you got your outer perimeter, then your middle perimeter and the finally your internal perimeter. So for example, cameras outside pointing at the street. Catches them coming in on car or walking. Thats outer perimeter. Early warning sing, They break in passing your front lawn or gate. Thats medium perimeter, if they werent caught on outer perimeter cameras for facial then camera then medium permiter most likely. Lastly, inner perimeter inside your house. Cameras inside your house point in. Also can have cheap break window sensors alarm. That are like 20$ 4 pack, one loud costant sound if you break the window. One dog on the outside and one dog inside. You aint having a easy day if you break into my house is going to cost you. But all and all it depends on how much security you want to add. How extensive 😊, because thats not even talking about guns I have and if im home.

[@qbertatx]

I really have learned a lot from your videos. My I humbly ad some information? I install security cameras for business and residents. If you can go wired cameras over wireless. POE makes installation a snap. Too easy to jam and bypass 2.4 and 5.8 now. Also add a battery backup system which are relatively inexpensive now to a internal DVR and monitor. That way if your powers cut you still have access to your external cameras. Thank you again.

[@NCrdwlf]

Neighbor ::. Your hounds bark whenever someone gets half close to your house . Me: it’s their job .

[@jameshughes1190]

I have cameras, motion lights, and a central alarm system. I also have a big beautiful German Shepherd in the house.

[@LC-in5or]

My dogs are my early warning system. Chihuahuas too, you don't want to fuck with them.

[@johnnyheyyy]

THANKS JOHN FUKYEA MAN: DONE ✅✅✅ GOD BLESS BROTHER!! 🇺🇸🤙

[@dertythegrower]

50 chihuahuas. Never getting by in silence.

[@dertythegrower]

1 hotdog cost per day. Peanuts cost more.

[@sethhughes2163]

@@dertythegrower Now that's funny....roflmao!!!

[@nobodynoone2500]

So what I am hearing is a hotdog will get me past em?

[@cameronlagrappe6630]

That’s genius lmao

[@indubitably5986]

You'd never have silence to begin with

[@11BRelo]

Truely a well of knowledge. Thank you brother!

[@cdalton3169]

Spot on, Sheriff!

[@Iseeuandwatch79]

Absolutely! 💯

[@gijonny78]

You're neighbours are going to want a word with you, after watching how you keep planning to throw them under the bus 😂

[@redskullwarthog9385]

Someone would be really F-ing stupid to come on to your property!!!

[@v1antbo]

4 german rottweilers early warning system

[@BIG_MOPPER]

"by the time you realize this is no good for you, its too late" 😂. Imagine being the poor SOB that breaks into johns house.😂😂

[@Mr-Damage]

The best early warning device ever created was Geese or Goose or however its coined.

[@zackmorgan4500]

Truth

[@KenBelcher-w7s]

Being silent and stealth are the best two killers in the world

[@KenBelcher-w7s]

I have infrared bio devices all around my property early warning devices

[@444turk]

I would of thought a picture of you John would stop them in their tracks

[@dertythegrower]

You do not have the automated paintball turret, and flamethrower drone that highschool kid made here 9 years back? 😆

[@dertythegrower]

Man it was 14 years ago not 9.... Time flies.

[@Nogame-u5f]

Dogs are a great alert system 10/10 my dog isn’t gonna attack any intruders but my dog usually picks up on things my cameras don’t and also signs are really good I have guard dog beware of dogs and anything to hint you have guns 😊

[@johnnybgood-ws5cu]

Really good stuff, sheriff, ty !!!

[@mikeenike13able]

Exactly why I laughed at that couple in their front lawn, worst f’ing idea if your agenda includes protecting your house.

[@ThePaulAllen]

My pittie is the best alarm ever lol

[@programmerm5907]

“Right”

[@mikeperry2561]

I love our warriors, but I wish he would critique his clips.

[@-1Patroit.]

Guinea hens will always let you know someone’s there lol it’s true

[@johnnylingle9314]

You are awesome

[@11bravo80]

HAPPY NEW YEAR.. LOVE YOU SERGEANT MAJOR..HOOAH...WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

[@sobtactical]

Happy New Year!

[@BobNchannel]

i have been using driveway alarms for years, i have the receiver set up so i know witch side of the house the intruder is coming on the property, i also have covered my windows with 8mil window vinyl , i take security seriously

[@robertwomack3419]

Moral of the story is.....live next to an idiot! 😎

[@joseph441-y2u]

I pray for the poor soul who attempts to break into John McPhee’s house because they last thing they’re going to hear is a giggle and “this is going to be fun right”

[@j.langer5949]

Protection from "joggers" and "youth". In our country we leave the door open because we have a non-diverse population that has high social trust and cohesion. Healthy community. I believe it was similar in the US before the dogmatic approach to the mantra named "diversity".

[@oldpain7625]

Is diversity the issue? I don't know. I remember a time when Americans were much closer to each other personally and people seemed to feel safer with each other. But social media seems to be the divider there from my memory. I guess we could look at Japan as supporting evidence of a safer society that has a much more homogeneous population. But perhaps diversity does more for world peace than it does for the individual countries who champion it, and it will take time to see results. Who knows.

[@j.langer5949]

@@oldpain7625 Diversity is your strength, as Biden says? Diversity isn't your strength. It lowers your wages, marginalises your culture, increases your crime, fills your hospitals, occupies your housing, ruins your schools, consumes your taxes, tightens your laws, restricts your freedoms, endangers your children, and calls you racist.

[@MM-qi5mk]

Diversity sucks

[@Herbster41]

Well put.

[@thelastsaxon8962]

Diversity ruins social cohesion and destroys nations/cities/towns/neighborhoods. It's not some big mystery.

[@redskullwarthog9385]

Part of my security is my pure bread $4,000 German Sheppard Female... 🤠

[@Battlegnome112]

Same.

[@calebjones1337]

I can’t imagine being the unfortunate person to try and rob this guy 😂

[@blueblur6447]

It would be the stuff they make movies about..

[@redbeard2527]

@@blueblur6447 Except we’d never hear about it to make a movie 😂

[@owen33333]

Great advice

[@afjm7499]

Thoughts and prayers to the poor bastard that picks John's house to break into lol

[@notyouraveragegoldenpotato]

This is why God created Mals and GSDs they work when the power and the lights are out too

[@NilesFoster-ry9in]

You probably dont want people knowing where you live but them look like some trees down south around where i live. Nevermind Texas i see.

[@sadtriangle8867]

What if you don’t have a strong point at all I love in a one bedroom apartment with no clear view from any room besides the kitchen but I would have to cross the door threshold into harm and I can’t put up anything but my ring doorbell any tips for apartment living with home defense?

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

I used to rob drug dealers,.Ive done plenty of home inv. But never never on cititzens. My word. Only guys that were in the life. For moral reasons but also practical. Working people dont have large amounts of cash kicking around generally. A dog is the number one problem. Everything else is workable but DOGS....its hard to work around. Plus i love animals so i have an even harder time. And my old pitbull saved my wife from s.a. while i was in prison. 100%.Something Really bad would have happened but for my dog. My wife had to dispose of fingers. Dogs never disappoint.

[@redbeard2527]

Thank you for sharing this from your experience. I’ve often wondered why people don’t consult the individuals that have done break ins stateside. Glad your wife and puppy are ok!

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

@@redbeard2527 thanks, sadly both are now gone. My wife died five years ago this coming October and Lola died years ago at, I shit you not 16, give or take, which is Methuselah aged for a pitbull. Another thing is this. Okay commercial burglaries were really more my thing. The disadvantage for say a jewelry store is that they have to keep stock in basically obvious places. Even if it's a beautiful jewelers safe. A chubb or something I'm going to know where it is. They've already lost a major part of the intelligence war with thieves. But why would a homeowner keep portable valuables (coins,stamps, cash jewelry) in a centralized space. Squirrel it around the house in small fireproof boxes... It's your house you can hide it literally anywhere. Then keep a "gimme"safe in the bedroom.

[@NotOnDrugs]

Facial recognition? What? Is that a clearance thing, or where can I buy this? Or are you talking about just having a good photo that can be used?

[@sobtactical]

A good picture that could be used, not technically facial recognition.

[@George-bb9yi]

Cheap facial recognition is here now; Google AI Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) branded by Coral are available that can track specific people (family members, problem individuals, etc....). Some are USB sticks, others are cards in different formats. Demand is high and the waiting time is terrible, but TPUs can be had for $25-30 USD.

[@brettlaw4346]

What sort of budget would you say would be bare minimum to aid in deterrence, disruption and prosecution?

[@victordasilva5255]

i might just run up to this dudes front door, see what he does...

[@Daniel-me2vu]

I wouldn’t lol

[@brr8888]

So Shrek doesn’t like his neighbors…got it. 😂

[@KamfaKing]

I think that the main take away here is to make your home more secure, and difficult to penetrate, than your neighbors. Be it dogs, cameras, alarms, steel bars on the windows, whatever. 99.9% of thieves won't be looking for the most difficult target, they will be looking for the easiest.

[@19MadMax98]

I wish I was neighbors with him

[@COBBADAMS]

Happy new year fookers!!! 1st BTW

[@sobtactical]

Happy new year!!

[@patricksanders6498]

Those old, broke trail cams work great in plain view, while you have a cellular overhead snapping pics!!! Its amazing how fkn stupid thieves are! They see a camera and steal it! All good, I got your ass!!!

[@zulubravo9434]

Have you interviewed many residential burglars incarcerated in the U.S.?

[@nobodynoone2500]

Theres 2 kinds, the pros and the crackheads. They have a completely different MO.

[@LB-ng8ez]

sheriff of baghdad gang

[@johnmacri7440]

Will always have a big dog

[@ARfrmDR]

Criminals dont walk around with poisoned bologna in their pockets..a dog is better than trail cameras

[@ray32245mv]

I have some concerns about what you refer to as strongpointing, but I also like the hell out of it too, so I'm a bit conflicted about it I guess.. 1) Legal. Exposing yourself, on video, and verbally informing trespassers that you want them to leave is gonna pay dividends in court. Their attorneys, or the attorneys prosecuting you, could always argue that your "No Trespassing" sign wasn't legible enough or some shit. 1.1) Severity of Crime. Attacking a structure that appears empty is not as risky as attacking an occupied structure. It is guaranteed that at least some people in a group will have reservations about harming people and may openly protest against proceeding once it is known to be occupied. Many just want your TV, or to damage property - not a murder charge. This often breaks the cohesion of the group, and buys you time. 2) Fire. The most dangerous weapon employed against a structure is fire, period. You cannot take cover within a structure from fire, and you cannot maintain your tactical position once your structure is on fire. Unlike a bullet fire is dirt cheap, readily accessible to literally everyone, and "one shot" can take a whole structure down. Fire demands that you immediately drop everything and deal with it, while the perp(s) is free to throw more fire, or just leave while you deal with your whole life burning to the ground. Although the "Summer of Love" featured extensive arson, the vast majority was directed at structures known or presumed to be unoccupied, again due to 1.1 - the majority of them wanted to burn buildings, not people. This brings us to 3) Looting vs. Rioting. Your system is actually an extremely effective one in this regard - you need to know ASAP what the motivations of the trespassers are. Looters, with rare exception, do not employ fire against structures they intend to loot. Multiple vehicles, determined movement, lack of emotional outbursts but carrying large bags/packs may be good indications of looters. If faced with looters, "strongpointing" is physically the safest, I just worry about the legal bit some, but then again .."tried by 12" comes to mind.

[@truaggro]

what if they had on masks, do you shoot to kill if they pursue your house.

[@Bookof5Rings]

Poor ADT salesman

[@francisp9024]

Really facial recognition ??

[@jasongraham2382]

Challenge with facial recognition: Bad guys are wearing masks.

[@NotOnDrugs]

Fuck, man. I always wish I had of joined...then, I broke my femur after flying 132'....but listening to your stories ....just makes me wish I would have joined more 😄😄 you'd be the best father in law, ever.

[@vincecapri1]

And a Big barking DoG

[@alexmcgregor2854]

Dogs.

[@johnsolberg5611]

Depending where your at in the United States if you have that means you might have guns and if you cross the cops will be on their way.

[@keeptexasfree7361]

Right.

[@barrett2022]

If you think you're going to rob John's house, you have fucked up!

[@MrChuckwagon55]

Home invaders also say they hate dogs, especially fighting breeds. Stickers that say “pit bull lover” or “Malinois lover” is a great, cheap deterrent too.