The circular is designed to assist Department personnel conducting Neighborhood Watch meetings, to impart basic crime prevention techniques to help communities enjoy a greater degree of safety and security. It relies on the best crime fighting tool ever invented, i.e., a good neighbor. Fortunately, good neighbors are found everywhere. They live in houses, apartment buildings, urban, suburban and rural areas. Neighborhood Watch Program unites the LAPD with local organizations and individual residents in a community-wide effort to reduce residential crime.
Neighbors working together with the LAPD are a formidable crime fighting team.
Be a good neighbor and make your community safer by starting a Neighborhood Watch Program. Neighborhood Watch is a crime prevention program enlisting the active participation of residents in cooperation with the LAPD to reduce the incidence and fear of crime in their communities. It involves neighbors getting to know each other to develop a program of mutual assistance. It involves neighbors being educated in crime reporting and suspect identification techniques. Finally, it involves neighbors using crime prevention strategies as tools to reduce crime in their communities.