Bad guys hate it when the police and community work together.
On a hot night in the Chinatown district of Honolulu, a dozen neighbors walk the streets with two police officers. One morning at her Wailuku, Maui, home, a woman notices two men she doesn't recognize looking around her neighbor's house. First she calls the neighbor, then 911, then other nearby neighbors. On a weekday afternoon in a meeting room in Hilo on the Big Island, police officers explain to downtown merchants how to protect themselves against burglaries and bad checks. Scenes like these are occurring more and more around Hawai'i.