Safe Homes, Safe Neighborhoods: Stopping Crime Where You Live

Description

In cities and towns across the country, people are coming together to bring crime rates down and to make their homes and neighborhoods safer for themselves and their families. This book shows how you can actively reduce crime in your neighborhood by starting and maintaining neighborhood crime prevention groups, building effective partnerships with police, using Neighborhood Watch techniques to foil potential burglaries and assaults, improving home security, protecting yourself from muggings, car-jackings and rapes, teaching children self-protective skills, preventing child abductions, learning what to do about domestic violence, eliminating graffiti and cleaning up the neighborhood, and combatting drug dealing and gangs. Whether you’re concerned about car thefts or crack houses, this book will show you how you can put an end to crime in your community.