Crime and safety

Start with these

1. Guide

   Crime Prevention Stems from Community Cooperation

   Crime prevention is central to success in many neighborhoods. Learn the best ways to organize neighborhood watch and traffic calming.

2. Guide

   Neighborhood Watch Can Lower Your Crime Rate

   Neighborhood watch programs are the most popular method for organizing citizens to prevent or deter crime, as crime and suspicious activity rise on a block.

3. Visitor question

   What can we do about people selling drugs in our neighborhood?

   Since the people hanging out and selling stuff in our neighborhood don't live here, how can we handle this? They just walk around, avoid the police, and

4. Visitor question

   Neighborhood Break-Ins

   Visitor Question: My normally quiet neighborhood has experienced one actual day-time break-in and one rattling of the door to see if it was locked. This

5. Guide

   CPTED Crime Approach Favors Certain Types of Building, Landscape, and Street Design

   The theory of CPTED, also known as environmental crime prevention, emphasizes fighting crime by using design principles. We say where we agree or disagree.

6. Guide

   Community Policing Could Be Important for Your Neighborhood?

   If you understand potential benefits and pitfalls of community policing, you can push your city toward better crime prevention performance.

7. Guide

   Trust in Police Grows When Both Community and Officers Make the Effort

   Trust in police sustains and rebuilds itself only with intentional hard work. We explore steps to restore cooperation between community and law enforcement.

Original guidance from A Good Community: How to Make and Keep It, owned and edited by Nancy Thompson (formerly Useful Community Development), shared with permission. Community Compass notes and updates are our own and have not been reviewed by Nancy Thompson.