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Recently I had a candid coversation with a "reformed" burgler/robber/home invasion "artist". (He just got out after 15 years - our Sen. Whitmire was instrumental in helping him get early release.)
The guy was really pleasent to talk to, and honest (about his history) at that.

I mean, we all might be talking to criminals now and then they just don't come out and tell you.

He told me his "crew's" M.O. was to get the cleanest looking member of the crew to ring the doorbell under the auspice of selling something to raise money for school -like magazines. If no one answered that was considered game for consideration of entry. Otherwise they waited for the "salesman's" report of who came to the door, what they could see in the house etc. to make an "educated" decision re: robbing the household.

He told me the only reason they got caught is because one of the crew "ratted" on them in exchange for a shorter sentence for a crime he committed without his "friends".

IMHO, the days of door to door sales are over.
At our there over for sure.