Posts under ‘Neighborhood Watch’

 Imagine you are at home lounging on the couch when you hear police sirens. You pull the curtains back from the window and see two police cars next door. An  officer is talking to your neighbor while another office is looking in the bushes.
 
You wonder what could have happened, and whether you are in [...]

It seems to me I have seen a lot more reports recently about thefts from vehicles.  For the most part this is a preventable crime.  Lock your doors! Park in a well lit area! Don’t leave your purse, back pack, laptop, iPod, GPS, or anything of value sitting in plain view in the vehicle. If you [...]

 Sunday morning I received the following email from one of the Neighborhood Watch Captains (she gave me permission to post it).  It looks like we had a spree of mailboxes getting bashed Saturday night. Please follow her advice and stay vigilant, call the police if you hear anything at night. We would love to catch the [...]

This is a known email scam and I thought I’d put it out there. Whoever these people are their using the name of an American soldier, I guess in hopes to tug at someone’s heart strings. Wow, some people have no conscience!

Associate,
How are you doing my friend, great I guess… Now I know this [...]

Click on the Links below for a couple great articles on Texting. 
The first one talks about textingand driving and the consequences of.  There is a video attached, it is a real eye opener.
The second one is on Teens and sexting and the dangers of.  For those of you who don’t know, sexting is when individuals [...]

I received an email from a friend of my with some great tips on preventing Identity Theaft, so I thought I would share them with you:
1. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put “Photo ID Required.”
2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts,  DO NOT put the [...]

Last night in the Heritage Hills area several mailboxes got hit with a baseball bat.  This is something that we don’t usually see when it is this cold out, but it is a wake up call that we still need to be vigilant.  If you see a car driving slowly down your street and you don’t recognize it [...]

Couldn’t resist sharing this with everyone- I saw this on WOWT6 last night. Its about an Omaha neighborhood, but this could have been anyone of our neighborhoods. This is what neighborhood watch is all about! A true success story! Neighbors looking out for neighbors and catching the bad guys in the act.
Here’s a link to [...]

I just read this on WOWT.com today and thought I’d share with everyone. I thought it had some useful information about burglaries & home security tips for neighbors to supplement Sgt. Jarvis’ post a couple months ago: http://www.wowt.com/news/misc/15607977.html
Also, here is a quick link to Sgt.Jarvis’ post:
http://bellevuepd.com/coppsblog/?p=282

by Sergeant Matt Jarvis
It takes a criminal about 11 seconds to get into your house.  All you have to do is make your house secure enough that the criminal will think entry will take longer than 11 seconds.  Sounds simple because it really is. Crime prevention strategies around the house.
  1.    Neighborhood Watch.  I know for [...]