Neighborhood Watch
9 burglary tactics and how they can help you prevent home invasions
Steve Niketopoulos, founder of the Ukrainian Village Neighborhood Watch, spoke to MySecuritySign a few weeks ago about working with his own and other neighborhood watch groups. In his efforts to educate his neighbors on community safety, he attended a meeting at Chicago’s 12th District police station during which five convicted burglars from the Safer Foundation […]
Detroit bike watch takes a novel approach to community safety
Five months ago, Andre Masnari began spending a few hours twice a week biking around the Midtown area of Detroit. He wasn’t training for a triathlon or even enjoying the mild Spring weather. He was watching out for crime. An AmeriCorps member at Wayne State University’s Center for Urban Studies, Andre worked closely with Wayne […]
Chicago’s Ukrainian Village Neighborhood Watch uses social media to engage neighbors, stop crime
Steve Niketopoulos is a good neighbor. Since he founded the Ukrainian Village Neighborhood Watch group in Chicago in 2011, he has encouraged 7,000 other neighbors to actively watch out for crime in their communities and has even helped thwart some crimes himself. Thanks to Steve’s efforts, watch groups now exist in Wicker Park, East Humboldt Park, Noble Square, […]
This Georgia neighborhood watch successfully cuts crime
The image is familiar to most: a dark figure in a trench coat and low-brimmed hat, his eyes peering out suspiciously from behind the universal “no” symbol. Above and below it, the announcement, “Warning Neighborhood Watch.” These signs have dotted American communities since the 1960s when outrage stemming from the lack of witness-response during the […]
‘Neighborhood watch groups are our eyes,’ police say
Lt. Michael Bernard of the Bedford Police Department in New Hampshire expressed his delight over the success of the three-year-old neighborhood watch program. Thanks to the active participation of watch groups, residential burglaries have been reduced from 45 burglaries in 2011 to 30 in 2012, with only 10 cases reported in the town this year. […]