Tara Knight May 4, 2023
Establishing yourself as a community and working together with your neighbors is one of the best ways to increase feelings of safety while actually reducing crime in your area. Here’s how to get started.
Form a community safety Facebook group and use Next-door to assess which neighbors might want to help with safety efforts.
Sometimes all it takes to make an area safer for everyone is a little coordination and elbow grease.
Learn who your neighbors are, the cars they drive, and any regular visitors or special guests.
Ultimately, the responsibility to secure your property lies with you — so fix any vulnerabilities.
Meetings and touch-base sessions can be the glue that holds a community group together.
A free, local self-defense course with a qualified instructor can give everybody who’s interested a little bit of training.
Landscaping can be a fire or safety hazard, or even present an opportunity for vermin infestation.
If there are any public areas that have fallen into disuse or disrepair, those would be a good project to tackle.
If you can be methodical, public funds might become available and other people might become inspired to join in.
Don’t post updates or photos on social media that are a safety risk (for example, vacation plans).
Host a kid-friendly tour so kids can locate the schools, playgrounds, parks, police and fire stations — and where to skateboard.
Make your kids are very aware of their own boundaries — undeveloped properties, vacant lots, and so on.
Making the neighborhood safer isn’t just one person’s job — it’s everybody’s.
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