The Crime Prevention Division strongly recommends the use of this checklist by all law enforcement agencies. Getting Started Violent crime in our schools represents a serious threat to the well-being of North Carolina's young people and their ability to learn. Most students today want to reclaim their schools from those that have robbed them of the opportunity to learn in a safe environment. They want to help make their schools safer, but often fear ridicule or retribution if they speak out. Scholastic Crime Stoppers is a crime reduction and prevention program, based on the Crime Stoppers concept.
Students are often a valuable source of information regarding campus crime.
The confidential information they provide through Scholastic Crime Stoppers is used to help make our schools and communities safer for everyone. This crime reduction program takes many forms, but all adhere to the basic concept of Crime Stoppers. In some localities, the school administration and Crime Stoppers coordinator choose to simply promote the local Crime Stoppers program in the schools, encouraging students to use the established Crime Stoppers telephone number to report incidents of crime on campus or anywhere in their community. Students, under the guidance of an advisor, set reward amounts, plan fund raising projects and market the program in their school and community. Yet other schools have adopted methods all their own.