Strategy: Celebrate Neighborhood Accomplishments
Celebrating a community’s accomplishments in planning and implementing anticrime projects and revitalization or redevelopment activities builds community pride . . .
Strategy: Citizen Volunteers To Prevent Crime
This strategy employs using trained citizen volunteers to report suspicious activity and provide uniformed presence in areas where . . .
Strategy: CPTED for Subways
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is used to build a subway environment that deters the opportunity for…
Strategy: CPTED Ordinances/Guidelines
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Strategy: Crime Prevention Programs On Local Cable Television
Use public-access cable television programming to spotlight local police efforts and crime prevention activities and to educate residents…
Strategy: Crime Tip Rewards
Monetary rewards for crime tips encourage crime reporting. Crime Problem Addressed This strategy aims to encourage–through financial incentives . . .
Strategy: Educational Presentations by Police to Businesses and Their Employees
Strategy: Empowering Public Housing Residents to Reclaim Their Neighborhoods
Residents help law enforcement agencies reduce drug activity and maintain security by reporting illegal activity to authorities, forming . . .
Strategy: Expanded Access To Public Officials
Broaden opportunities for citizens to express their concerns about crime, safety, and other issues in discussions with public . . .
Strategy: Highway Watch
A watch program is organized so that highway truck drivers can observe and report suspicious or illegal activity . . .
Strategy: Park Watch
A program enlists users and neighbors to watch over park property. Crime Problem Addressed A Park Watch program . . .
Strategy: Promoting Open Space and Environmental Clean-Ups
Community groups dedicated to involving youth, adults, and seniors work with residents, business owners, and city officials in . . .
Strategy: Requiring Inmates To Perform Community Service
Using supervised nonviolent prison inmates to clean up public places and perform community service results in these areas . . .
Strategy: Safer Design of Public Areas in Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods can reduce drug-related activity through environmental changes that make their communities less vulnerable and hospitable to drug dealers.
Strategy: Special Community Events To Promote Prevention
Special community events focus attention on crime prevention and help galvanize support for preventing crime, violence, and drug . . .
Strategy: Starting Neighborhood Watch Groups
Organized groups of neighborhood residents who watch out for criminal and suspicious behavior and report it to local . . .
Strategy: Use Media As An Ally
Local media coverage of and support for community crime prevention help raise public awareness and encourage participation in . . .
Strategy: Victim Assistance Services
Community-based victim assistance services help relieve stress and other consequences of crime, reduce vulnerability to repeated victimization, and . . .
Strategy: Youth-Led Community Service Projects
Neighborhoods can reduce drug-related activity through youth-led community service projects that make their communities less vulnerable and hospitable . . .
