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You are a key element in fighting crime.

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Good Neighbors

• Are the primary reason that neighborhood watch programs work!

• Are concerned and will stop and take notice that deliveryman in the unfamiliar car driving slowly through the neighborhood

• Meet their neighbors and exchange vital information for emergency purposes

Neighborhood Watch Tips

Protect Yourself By
- Use good lighting.
- Use good lock security.
- Keeping shrubs trimmed.
- Locking all doors and windows whenever your house is unoccupied.
- Letting a trusted neighbor know when you are on vacation. Don't advertise!! Stop deliveries and have all mail picked up.

Our Programs Work

• Strengthens the relationship between the community and the police, while providing a cost effective method to reduce crime!

• Becomes a daily part of neighborhood living, not a series of meetings. The basic premise of the watch program is: You watch my house and I will watch your house.

• It teaches residents about proactive strategies and techniques in order to fight against crime.

• Creates awareness among residents for them to assist in the prevention of criminal activity in their communities.

• Helps build community pride and provides the mechanism for residents to address other neighborhood concerns.

Vince Lombardi

Gang Alert

• Once found only in large cities, gangs have invaded communities of all sizes across the U.S. Gangs bring fear and violence to neighborhoods, traffic drugs, destroy property, and drive out businesses. Gangs draw young people away from school and home and into a life of violence.

• A mobilized community is the most promising way to deal with the gang problem.

• Citizens must learn to recognize and report gang activity. Local leadership must be recruited and developed if later racial and class conflicts are to be avoided or minimized in the programs that are launched.

The role of the Grant County Sheriff’s Office in controlling and reducing gang crime includes investigation, intelligence, suppression, public education, community relations, and training.
 

A mobilized community is the most promising way to deal with the gang problem. The development of informed, consistent relations and procedures among and within organizations results in greater social control and social support and more effective targeting of the problem. Criminal justice agencies, community-based agencies, and local grassroots organizations must be involved in policy development and program implementation. Involvement of diverse neighborhood groups in gang neighborhoods is essential to a viable approach.