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When you're not home, who watches?
Listens? Reports?
The best crime
prevention tool ever invented is a GOOD NEIGHBOR! In fact, neighbors
working together, in cooperation with law enforcement, can make one
of the best crime-fighting teams around.
What is Neighborhood Watch?
NHW is a crime
prevention program that enlists the active participation of
citizens, in cooperation with law enforcement, to reduce residential
crime. You may have heard it called Home Alert, Neighborhood Block
Watch, or Citizen Crime Watch. The names may differ, but the idea is
the same:
NEIGHBORS LOOKING OUT FOR EACH OTHER!
How does NHW work?
You and your
neighbors are the ones who are in a position to really know what
goes on in your neighborhood. Ask yourself: Would a police officer
recognize a stranger in your yard or a suspicious vehicle in your
driveway? Maybe not. But your neighbors probably would!
And that's what
Neighborhood Watch is all about. Organizing the eyes and ears of an
entire neighborhood into a powerful, hard to penetrate, 24-hour a
day barrier…protecting neighborhoods from crime.
Neighborhood Watch helps members to:
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Improve the security of
their homes, families, and personal belongings.
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Recognize suspicious and
unusual activity in their neighborhood.
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Build a communication
network that works to protect their neighborhood.
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Gain a feeling of genuine
security through their ability to actually DETER crime.
Is Neighborhood Watch really effective?
You
bet it is! The reason is simple enough
DESIRE…OPPORTUNITY…ABILITY
Criminals must
have all three if they are to be successful. NHW groups DENY
criminals the OPPORTUNITY and ABILITY they need by refusing the
criminal the chance to operate undetected.
All across the
United States, wherever NHW groups are active, the reduction of
crime has been substantial…even dramatic!
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