Volunteer to mentor, coach, counsel, or just help out at or after school or on weekends. Ask whether your community has a comprehensive action plan to reduce crime, one that involves all sectors of the community. If not, help get the process started. Speak out for prevention. Help make it the first choice for reducing crime, because it costs less and hurts less.
Businesses stand to lose a lot if crime gets in the way of community health.
Offer your skills, services, and facilities for community anti-crime efforts. Find out whether your community has community policing , in which police work with specific communities and help them address crime and its causes by solving problems with local residents. Get involved in your neighborhood and at the community level.