""I see an opportunity where things could have been different, is the presence of on-site security, because while obviously electronic monitoring has its value from a documentation perspective, there is a difference between monitoring and security," said Derek Morgan, a security executive with CSUSA Security."
""It's like a it's like an abandoned house, you know, that there's an alarm. But people still break in houses every day." Director of Operations James Recio said."
""Usually when you have an off-site security area or a storage area, you're going to have a certain amount of security there," Wittman said. "Generically speaking, you wouldn't even know where the storage area was, that wouldn't be a public thing out there.""
More than 1,000 items, including cultural artifacts and historic objects, were stolen from an off-site Oakland Museum of California storage facility during a nighttime break-in on October 15. FBI and Oakland police are seeking public assistance to identify two suspects captured on surveillance video. Museum officials say the facility is not always staffed and may lack on-site security, relying on electronic monitoring. Security professionals and a former FBI art crime specialist note that many museum thefts involve insiders, with one expert citing an 89% insider component, though this event appears to be a crime of opportunity.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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