Crime Prevention
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!