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In 2002, the National Sheriffs' Association in cooperation with USA Freedom Corps, Citizen Corps and the U.S. Department of Justice launched USAonWatch, now renamed National Neighborhood Watch to expand the National Neighborhood Watch initiative beyond its original crime prevention role to assisting and preparing neighborhoods for disasters and ...
Neighbourhood Watch Sign, Combat Force Assistance (South Africa) A neighborhood watch or neighbourhood watch (see spelling differences), also called a crime watch or neighbourhood crime watch, is an organized group of civilians devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood.
Shmira (Hebrew: שְׁמִירָה, 'protection') or Shomrim (Hebrew: שׁוֹמְרִים, 'watchers', 'guards') are organizations of proactive volunteer Jewish civilian patrols which have been set up in Haredi communities in neighborhoods across the United States, Canada, [1] the United Kingdom, Israel, Belgium, and Australia (among other countries) to combat burglary, vandalism, mugging ...
Neighbourhood Support aims to make homes, streets, neighbourhoods and communities safer and more caring places in which to live. This is primarily achieved through the establishment of a "Neighbourhood Support Group", comprising anywhere from several to dozens of residential households in a single street or suburb. Groups throughout a suburb or a wider town or city area are then coordinated by ...
Neighborhood planning is a form of urban planning through which professional urban planners and communities seek to shape new and existing neighborhoods. It can denote the process of creating a physical neighborhood plan, for example via participatory planning, or an ongoing process through which neighborhood affairs are decided.
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The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, doing business as NeighborWorks America, is a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization that supports community development in the United States and Puerto Rico. The organization provides grants and technical assistance to more than 240 community development organizations.
Online Watch Link (OWL), is a commercial web application to manage watch schemes such as Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom) and Business Watch. It also acts as a communications platform to allow watch coordinators and the police to send out messages and high priority alerts to members.