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No housebreaker with an ounce of brains would use a lock pick before trying a bump key first. The locks on your house are almost certainly bumpable. The locks at your workplace might be more secure. That's fine, though. If you make the lock on your front door more secure, the weak point is now the latching mechanism, the door frame, or the door itself. Or perhaps it is your sliding patio door, that can be levered. Ma…
My family owns an abandoned house and it's been broken into like 10 times by thieves looking for stuff to steal. I believe they stole some guns and fireworks, and just trashed everything else.
Abandoned premises are a whole other thing. If the burglar has no worry that the occupants will return, they may try for more ambitious scores, such as removing the copper water pipes or condenser coils, or ripping up floors, walls, and ceilings looking for hidden caches.