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This selection also offers you monitors with built-in quads,
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How To Reduce Crime In Your Neighborhood
While we don't like to talk about it - or even think about
it -crime is on the increase in America, and throughout the
world. The number of burglars, muggers, auto thieves, robbers,
purse snatchers, etc., is growing at an alarming rate. Now
you, as a resident, working with neighbors can help reduce
the crime rate.
How? By organizing and/or joining a neighborhood program
in which you and your neighbors get together to learn how
to protect yourselves, your family, your home and your property.
Working together, you can get the criminals off your block
and out of your area.
There's safety in numbers and power through working with
a group. You'll get to know your neighbors better, and working
with them you can reduce crime, develop a more united community,
provide an avenue of communications between police and citizens,
establish ongoing crime prevention techniques in your neighborhood,
and renew citizen interest in community activity.
"Citizens Safety Projects" are set up to help you
do this. It is a joint effort between private citizens and
local police. Such programs have been started all over the
country. Maybe one already exists in your community.
These organizations don't require frequent meetings (once
a month or so). They don't ask anyone to take personal risks
to prevent crime. They leave the responsibility for catching
criminals where it belongs - with the police. This is NOT
a "vigilante" group:
These groups gather citizens together to learn crime prevention
from local authorities. You cooperate with your neighbors
to report suspicious activities in the neighborhood, to keep
an eye on homes when the resident is away, and to keep everyone
in the area mindful of the standard precautions for property
and self that should always be taken. Criminals avoid neighborhoods
where such groups exist.
Through cooperation with local law enforcement agencies,
some of the things you will learn - and all free - are:
1. What to do in an emergency.
2. How to best identify a suspicious person.
3. How to identify a vehicle being used in a suspected
criminal activity.
4. Signs to watch out for before entering a house or
apartment that may be in the process of being burglarized.
5. What to do in case of injury.
6. What to do about suspicious people loitering on your street.
7. How to identify stolen merchandise.
8. How to recognize auto theft in progress.
9. How to protect your house or apartment.
10. How to recognize a burglary in progress.
11. How to protect yourself and family - and much more.
It's easy to get your group started. All you have to do is
contact your neighbors and arrange a date, place and time
for the first meeting. Hold the meetings at your home or that
of a neighbor. Try to plan a time that is convenient to most
of your neighbors - preferably in the evening.
Then call your local police department. They will be happy
to give your group informal lectures, free literature - and
in many instances, window stickers and I.D. cards. Remember,
police officers can't be everywhere. Your cooperation with
them is for the benefit of you, your family, your neighbors
and your neighborhood.
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