Reinforcements like a London bar and hinge bolts are a good defense
If the door frame takes them, this and / or a birmingham bar. Used to occasionally pop doors at work, properly reinforced ones were a pain and could take multiple strikes which a burglar probably wouldn’t keep doing. Without reinforcement on the frame it was how far down the hallway did the strike plate go.
We would only get a lock picked if we didn’t want the owner to know we’d been in - brute force for the win.
If the door frame takes them, this and / or a birmingham bar. Used to occasionally pop doors at work, properly reinforced ones were a pain and could take multiple strikes which a burglar probably wouldn’t keep doing. Without reinforcement on the frame it was how far down the hallway did the strike plate go.
We would only get a lock picked if we didn’t want the owner to know we’d been in - brute force for the win.