Why Brits Don't Feel Safe At Home

The reason Brits don't feel safe at home is because they know that their home invasion rate, like the rest of the disarmed First World, is much too high and is much higher than that of the "crime-ridden" United States.

Third 'keep anti-intruder weapon'
BBC News

Almost a third of UK householders keep items like golf clubs, cricket bats and heavy torches in case intruders enter their homes, a survey has suggested.

And more than half of them said they were prepared to use these objects, the poll of 4,000 people for the insurance company Cornhill Direct said.

It also reported that only one in five feels safe in their own homes at night.

But the most recent British Crime Survey found that burglaries had fallen by 3% in England and Wales.

The number which had been reported to police fell by 7% in the year to 2005-6.