Residents, cops fight back against porch pirates with newfangled tools

If Black Friday felt a little less hectic, think porch deliveries.
A record $7.9 billion was spent online in the United States this year on that day, according to an estimate by software company Adobe — an increase of 19.3 percent over just the year before.
So that battalion of trucks you see out there dropping off packages this holiday season is bigger than ever.
Probably, sadly, so is the parade of prowling porch pirates.
A 2017 poll by Shorr Packaging Corp., an Illinois-based compa