.aspx) Community WatchCommunity Watch is a crime prevention program which enlists the active participation of citizens in cooperation with law enforcement to reduce crime in their communities.It involves:
- Neighbors getting to know each other and working together in programs of mutual assistance to prevent crime; and
- Citizens being trained to recognize and report suspicious activities in their neighborhoods
You may hear it called Neighborhood Watch, Home Alert, Citizens Crime Watch or Block Watch. The names differ, but the idea is the same: Neighbors looking out for each other.
Community Watch Works
The goal of a Community Watch is to give potential criminals the feeling that everyone in the community is watching their every move and that they will be reported to law enforcement.
Across North Carolina, communities are working together to secure their homes, mark their valuables, identify drug dealers, develop child safety programs, clean up their neighborhoods and to improve the environment where their children and families live.Every law enforcement agency knows that when people care enough to get involved, crime will not flourish. Community Watch works when people get involved and stay involved.
Why Start A Community Watch?
Law enforcement officers cannot be on every corner, so citizen involvement is essential to combat crime. You and your neighbors are the ones who really know what is going on in your community. By cooperating with each other and the police, people can help fight crime in their community in the most effective way-before it happens!
Resources
The following files are in Adobe .pdf format:
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