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Serious answer ... move to a safer community. Seriously. They have operational surprise. They can choose to hit your home when where, and choose point of entry. Having masses of street lights, regular security details, checkpoints (sounds like a walled community?) doesn't have any substitute to it.
If moving is prohibited, then combining disguise with opennness is the best thing. Don't park that Mercedes where it can be seen by passers-by. But clip your hedges so you can't be surprised while you're waiting for the garage door to open.
Lights on, silent alarms, dogs, there's only so much that can be done system-wise. If there's any innovation I think some fire-alarm systems could work. Or anti-burglar systems that fill the room with smoke, things like that.
But that's very much last resort. Stopping them at the community level is the only real answer, I think. Such a shame that most homeowners don't care about their neighbors nowadays.
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