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**excivaamome** · 05-22-2007, 09:02 PM

To answer the question - very low.

http://www.transalt.org/info/caralar...effective.html

Once a matter of debate, the evidence is now clear: car alarms, for all their sound and fury, do nothing whatever to stop car theft or theft from within cars. "Car alarms are a terrible urban blight with obvious social costs - noise pollution, increased stress, wasted police manpower dealing with broken alarms - and it's not clear there are any benefits in return," says Lawrence Sherman, director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. "No study has demonstrated that they reduce auto theft."16

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excivaamome Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 381 Senior Member	To answer the question - very low. http://www.transalt.org/info/caralar...effective.html Once a matter of debate, the evidence is now clear: car alarms, for all their sound and fury, do nothing whatever to stop car theft or theft from within cars. "Car alarms are a terrible urban blight with obvious social costs - noise pollution, increased stress, wasted police manpower dealing with broken alarms - and it's not clear there are any benefits in return," says Lawrence Sherman, director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. "No study has demonstrated that they reduce auto theft."16
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