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Crime Prevention 101
All you need to know to prevent crime from happening.
A Blueprint for Starting and Sustaining a Neighborhood Watch Program
Index:
Why Organize a Neighborhood Watch?
Phase One: Getting Started - Meetings, Block Captains, and Maps
Phase Two: When the neighborhood decides to adopt the Watch idea
Sustaining the Neighborhood Watch
Survey to find out how safe you are in your neighborhood
Why Organize a Neighborhood Watch?
Crime and fear threaten the community's well being - people become afraid to use streets and parks, suspicion erupts between young and old, shops gradually leave. Crime in turn feeds on the social isolation it creates. the Neighborhood Watch Program is one of the most effective and least costly answers to crime and fear of crime. Neighborhood Watch fights the isolation that crime both creates and feeds upon. It forges bonds among are residents, helps reduce burglaries and robberies, and improves relations between police and the communities they serve. Watch groups are a foundation of community crime prevention; they can be a stepping stone of a community.
What do Neighbors Look For?
Someone screaming or shouting for help
Someone looking into windows and parked cars
Unusual noises
Property being taken out of closed businesses or houses where no one is at home
Cars, vans, or trucks moving slowly with no apparent destination, or without lights
Anyone being forced into a vehicle
A stranger sitting in a car or stopping to talk to a child
Abandoned cars