SEATTLE — After a Ballard woman had her car broken into over and over again, she found a solution online.
Jodi Salenski lives in the Whittier Heights neighborhood – the same neighborhood that successfully pushed Seattle police last fall to launch a review of its response times to property crimes.
Residents then hired their own officers.
Those off-duty police officers patrol at certain hours of the day, but they can't be around 24-7.
Salenski says she lost count of how many times thieves broke into her Toyota.
"We had spent a lot of money to get our glove box replaced, and steering wheel replaced,” said Salenski.
Then, in January, her car was stolen. Though police recovered it in Fremont six hours later, she and her husband knew something needed to change.
A neighbor suggested she try a motion-sensor alarm.
"It just detects any type of motion,” said Salenski.
What she likes about the sensor is that it detects motion but doesn’t make any noise in the car. The alarm goes off on a separate remote device that she and her husband keep in the bedroom.
Recently the alarm went off around 5 a.m., which alerted her to the break-in. So she and her husband triggered the panic alarms on both of their vehicles.
"It's really easy to use, it's really cheap, it's very reliable, and since we caught the people in our car, they've never come back, so I feel like it's a win-win situation,” said Salenski.
We found a link to the product on Amazon for about $14, click here to see it.
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