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EIGHT THINGS YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORS CAN DO
Neighborhood Safety Tips
1. Set up a Neighborhood
Watch or a community patrol, working with police. Make sure your streets and homes are well-lighted.
2. Make sure
that all the youth in the neighborhood have positive ways to spend their spare time, through organized recreation, tutoring
programs, part-time work, and volunteer opportunities.
3. Build a partnership with police, focused on solving problems
instead of reacting to crises. Make it possible for neighbors to report suspicious activity or crimes without fear of retaliation.
4. Take advantage of safety in numbers to hold rallies, marches, and other group activities to show you're determined
to drive out crime and drugs.
5. Clean up the neighborhood! Involve everyone: teens, children, senior citizens. Graffiti,
litter, abandoned cars, and run-down buildings tell criminals that you don't care about where you live or each other. Call
the public works department and ask for help in cleaning up.
6. Ask local officials to use new ways to get criminals
out of your building or neighborhood. These include enforcing anti-noise laws, housing codes, health and fire codes, anti-nuisance
laws, and drug-free clauses in rental leases.
7. Work with schools to establish drug-free zones. Work with recreation
officials to do the same for parks.
8. Develop and share a phone list of local organizations that can provide counseling,
job training, guidance, and other services that can help neighbors.
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