{"id":1393992,"date":"2022-03-22T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393992"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:30:18","slug":"as-los-angeles-comes-apart-from-soaring-crime-demand-for-safe-rooms-skyrockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-los-angeles-comes-apart-from-soaring-crime-demand-for-safe-rooms-skyrockets\/","title":{"rendered":"As Los Angeles Comes Apart From Soaring Crime, Demand For Safe Rooms Skyrockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-los-angeles-comes-apart-from-soaring-crime-demand-for-safe-rooms-skyrockets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-825307262.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As Los Angeles comes apart with soaring crime, wealthy homeowners have surged in their demand for \u201csafe rooms\u201d so they can be protected from potential invaders of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Cryer, the vice-president of international operations at Building Consensus\/Panic Room Builders, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-news\/safe-rooms-demand-homeowners-1235111722\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, \u201cOur influx of inquiries has increased more than 1,000 percent over the past three months. \u2026 It\u2019s gone insane.\u201d\u00a0 He added, \u201cHidden rooms are definitely trending right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding Consensus\/Panic Room (which consulted on the 2002 movie Panic Room) builds various safe spaces ranging in security levels from one through eight. Safe rooms at level three may be protected with Kevlar, while a level eight is encased in thick steel,\u201d The Hollywood Reporter noted. Cryer explained, \u201cJust the doors can be 2,000 to 3,000 pounds. And then we\u2019re installing steel within the room. So, we\u2019re generating up to 10,000 pounds in a room. \u2026 You could kit out a small closet for about $100,000, $150,000. And then it\u2019s north of there. We\u2019ve done one in London that had two rooms, full suites \u2026 and that was over a million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To enter the rooms, biometrics such as a finger or retina scan are primarily utilized; they can be hidden behind a bookcase or hidden wall and include panic buttons that automatically call security services.<\/p>\n<p>The International Association of Certified Home Inspectors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachi.org\/safe-rooms.htm\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In Mexico, where kidnappings are relatively common, some people use safe rooms as an alternative (or a supplement) to bodyguards. \u2026 Since the 1980s, every U.S. embassy has had a safe room with bullet-resistant glass. Perhaps the largest safe room will belong to the Sultan of Brunei. The planned 100,000-square foot room will be installed beneath his 1,788-room, 2,152,782-square foot residence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Douglas Elliman real estate agent Greg Holcomb told The Hollywood Reporter, \u201cI think they are not something that, in an immediate sense, increases value. \u2026 But when a buyer is interested in the house anyway, I think it does help [boost interest].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But potential buyers of homes that have \u201csafe rooms\u201d don\u2019t find out they exist until a contract has been signed, for good reason; Jon Grauman of The Agency explained, \u201cYou never know who\u2019s potentially casing a house. The last thing you want to do is show them, \u2018Here\u2019s the panic room, and here\u2019s how you access it.\u201d Holcomb added, \u00a0\u201cWe once had a property and an appraiser come and was measuring the home, and they could not figure out why there was this kind of dead space. \u2026 And we weren\u2019t allowed to tell them what it was. They just had to assume it was dead space, when in fact behind a secret panel was a safe room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cryer asserted, \u201cWithin the room itself, you could be in there for up to 24 hours. I mean, it depends where you are in the world. And in most of L.A., you could be waiting a couple of hours before the police get to you. \u2026 We\u2019ve even done bunkers and tunnels. We\u2019ve done a project out in Malibu. They wanted a secret tunnel out to the beach. So they could escape, like a secret bunker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grauman concluded, \u201cPanic rooms are just going to be one of those amenities that gets tacked on to every list of, \u2018OK, every new home moving forward above x price point must have this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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