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2009-04-23
How effective, creative strategic planning has transformed the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
2009-05-01
Ideas to prevent rural crime.
2009-05-28
What is Safe Communities America? learn more..
2009-07-31
Find out how the Akron Block Watch program has been growing and keeping team spirt going.
2009-10-12
An overview of the economic downturns and the relation to home foreclosures to public safety is provided. This article will help you to better understand some of the problems that are going on in a very different light.
2009-11-10
How to adapt the Neighborhood Watch concept to combat animal cruelty and neglect.
2009-12-14
Farm Watch provides both law enforcement officers and community members various opportunities for cross-training. Member volunteers, like their Neighborhood Watch counterparts, learn how to protect their properties and to document and report suspected criminal behaviors. They also are taught to recognize the signs of a rural crime scene (e.g., discarded coffee filters soaked in alcohol, cold medicine packaging, or old batteries, or chemical odors wafting from fields or disused barns, which indicate possible methamphetamine activity).
2010-01-14
2009 Award Winners from the National Neighborhood Watch Program
2010-02-12
The U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin announced a collaboration with Microsoft HealthVault that will provide new features and expand access to My Family Health Portrait, a free Internet-based resource.
2010-03-05
A Cincinnati neighborhood begins its own restoration by transforming two long-vacant storefronts into a new substation and a permanent Weed and Seed office. The hope is that this project will serve as a catalyst to revitalizing the whole community.