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QUIZ: When is it OK to Leave Your Door Unlocked?

 Police are urging New York's residents to lock their doors to prevent burglaries.
Police are urging New York's residents to lock their doors to prevent burglaries.
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NEW YORK CITY — For years, police officers from across the city have repeated one simple request of New Yorkers. The NYPD wants you to lock your doors

“We leave the house in a rush to go to work and next thing you know we leave the door open,” a Manhattan deputy inspector said in February.

"Don’t make it easy for them," an NYPD captain said last March.

"The bottom line is, close your doors before you leave," said a Brooklyn commanding officer said two years ago.

But from Washington Heights to Boerum Hill, Greenwich Village to Williamsburg, residents just aren’t heeding to those orders.

Even if you feel that you live in a safe neighborhood, no one is spared from an opportunistic thief who sees a wide-open opportunity, multiple police sources say.

And locking your doors, authorities say, often discourages burglars from breaking into your home.

“Just make sure everything is locked up at night,” Capt. Jason Hagestad, executive officer of the 76th Precinct said at a meeting this week.

“It makes it a little harder [for thieves].”

But since New Yorkers are still leaving their doors open despite these pleas, DNAinfo New York has a quiz for you.

When do you think it’s O.K. to leave your doors unlocked?