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The Neighborhood Watch Program

Crime Prevention

New Orleans Police Crime Prevention Unit

Find a Neighborhood Watch Program in your area!

In the early 1970's Police Chiefs and Sheriffs from around the country were requesting a program that would stop the increasing crime rate across the United States. The National Sheriff's Association developed a model program for today's Neighborhood Watch or Crime Watch Programs.

Neighborhood Watch is a citizen's involvement program where citizens, in cooperation with the New Orleans Police Department, directly participate in the detection and prevention of crime in their neighborhood. Citizen's involved in Neighborhood Watch are trained how to recognize suspicious or criminal activities and how to report these activities to the N.O.P.D. Neighborhood Watch Groups are trained by District Crime Prevention Officers focusing on particular crime problems in their neighborhood.

Neighborhood Watch works because people want to assume a more active role in making their community a safer place to live. It would be impractical to place a law enforcement officer on every street corner in every neighborhood, but very practical to utilize those residents who live there. Residents within a neighborhood are aware of who belongs there and who doesn't and what activity is suspicious. The most important reason Neighborhood Watch works is that citizens began working with, instead of relying on, law enforcement to combat crime in their community.

You can do something about crime in your neighborhood. You can make a difference. You can do this by becoming involved in NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH. Please call Sgt. Patricia Childress, Commander of the New Orleans Police Department Crime Prevention Unit or Ms. Lydia Lindsey, City of New Orleans Neighborhood Watch Coordinator, at (504)658-5590 to learn just how easy it is to become part of a Neighborhood Watch Program in your neighborhood.

We need to make a difference. Call today!