The National Neighborhood Watch Program was created in 1972, with financial assistance from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The purpose of the program was to unite law enforcement agencies, private organizations, and individual citizens in a massive effort to reduce residential crime. A work plan emerged for use by sheriffs, police and citizens for putting together local neighborhood-based programs. Since it's establishment, Neighborhood Watch has developed thousands of such local residential crime prevention programs in which individual citizens work to make their own homes and families less inviting targets for crime and cooperate with law enforcement through block and neighborhood groups to control crime throughout the community

Through the Neighborhood Watch Program, Brown County residents are decreasing their chances of becoming a victim of crime.

The prevention of crime, particularly property crimes in residential neighborhoods, is a responsibility that must be shared equally by law enforcement and private citizens.  The fact is, the impact on crime prevention by law enforcement alone is minimal when compared with the power of private citizens working with law enforcement and with each other.  Neighborhood Watch is based on this concept of cooperation and nationwide statistics prove that it works.  When citizens take positive steps to secure their own property and neighbors learn how to report suspicious activity around their homes, burglary and related offenses decrease dramatically.

For more information:

Brown County Sheriff's Department

PO Box 22003

Green Bay, WI  54305

(920) 448-4200

Website:  http://www.co.brown.wi.us/sheriff/index2.html
 

www.citizenobserver.com

If you have not already done so, please register

your Neighborhood Watch group at www.usaonwatch.org

Interested in Neighborhood Watch?  Please see our Training page.