...I sat at the front porch at home and I didn’t see kids playing on the block after school, or on weekends. All my neighbor’s home doors are closed and I don’t know them, or their kids. Communication between my neighbors doesn’t exist. We are strangers because our lives are too busy and we do not have time to stay outside to know each other. When I was a child we used to play ball on the street, ride our bicycles, enjoy card games, traded baseball cards, or ran races to see who was faster. I remembered running home to get money because the ice cream truck is coming or running home for help because you got hurt once brought all the neighborhood kids to your door to wait and see the results. A quarter in your hand or a new clean band aid was admired and then everyone went back to happily playing the game at hand. Now that is history and we just talk about the good times kid had when they used to play on the streets. I go to my sister house and my nephews are with all their electronic games that replaced the precious time of playing on the street with the neighbors. They are lazy, their initiative is gone, and new inventions and communications do not exist because they want to build their scores in their favorite electronic games. Playing games alone is the most common they to do; one could be happy knowing that kids will not get into trouble since they won’t be exposed to dangerous things that are happening on the street nowadays. I see the streets empty of bustling children...
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...to look at different neighborhood watch programs found in the United States and compare two of them. After researching quite a few of them I decided to talk about the city of Tucson Arizona neighborhood watch and the LAPD (Los Angeles police department) neighborhood watch program. Before I talk about the two programs, I will first define what a neighborhood watch is. According to our book as well as different internet definitions, it is simply a program of neighbors watching out for each other during the workday, evenings, vacations or any other absence. The purpose of this program is to create an alert neighborhood by using simple crime prevention methods. This program works with the mutual aid of neighbors watching property of neighbors. This had several advantages. First, your neighbors will be familiar with your lifestyle, material possessions, and family members. They will know what type of cars you drive and who belongs, as a rule, at our residence. If a police officer drove by your home, he might not recognize that the person standing in your front yard is a stranger but an alert neighbor will recognize that this person is a stranger. The most important thing to know about these programs is that they do NOT promote vigilantism. You are never asked to put yourself in harm’s way to prevent crime. You are only asked to observe and report suspicious behavior and activities to the police department. The City of Tucson Arizona has a neighborhood watch program that seems...
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...Addis Ababa University School of Social Work Community Assessment Report Community: ANKORCHA By: Genene Yilma Yohannes Feyyisa Melsew Kibret Melese Yirga Mengistie Tegenie Feyisa Negashu Mussie Atlabachew Zebib Nesru Submitted to : Wassie Kebede(PhD) April/2014 Table of Contents Acknowledgement ………………….. ………………… Acronyms IGA – Income Generating Activities KII- Key Informant Interview FGD- Focus Group Discussion List of Appendices Appendix A – Interview guide for community members Appendix B – Interview guide for wereda government officials Appendix C – Focus Group Discussion (FGD) guide for the community members (male and female separately) Appendix D – Observation Checklist Appendix E – Group Action plan Appendix F – list of assessment participants 1. Executive Summary 2. Purpose of the Community The purpose of the assessment was aimed at exploring existing community resources/capacities, Strength and Asset, and their needs so as to submit the findings to school of social work and concerned government offices. 3. Methodology 4.1. Data collection Instruments In order to learn about the Ankorcha community we collected both primary and secondary...
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...Week 3 Team Assignment Cja/314 A few months ago our suburb implemented a neighborhood watch program. We wanted to make our neighborhood safer, help reduce crime, and improve the quality of life within the neighborhood. Since we live just outside of a large city we realized that the local police officers could not be everywhere at once, so we started the watch so we could be the “eyes and ears” for local law enforcement. Our neighborhood watch consist of twenty members plus our law enforcement liaison, Officer Huggins. Officer Huggins is a huge asset to our neighborhood watch program. He attends our monthly meetings and is also involved in our community-wide watch activities. Officer Huggins also trains our watch members ranging from setting goals to how to report suspicious activity. His purpose of the neighborhood watch program is not to run the program but to be there for support and to guide us the best way he can so that we have a successful program. It is great to know that we have the support from our local law enforcement. Our community watch members have many different responsibilities. The biggest responsibility to insure the success of our program for years to come is to remain active. We stay active by conducting monthly meetings, having community BBQs, and also training every three months. Each month at our meetings we discuss topics such as Neighborhood watch patrolling, suspicious activity, and home security (2005 MUBX). It is very important that...
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...Neighborhood Watch Proposal Neighborhood Watch Proposal Introduction A Neighborhood Watch Program is a community-implemented program that assists with preventing crime. This program was started in the 1970’s by the National Sheriff’s Association to encourage members of various communities to observe and report on suspicious activities within their neighborhoods. The Neighborhood Watch Program’s purpose is to improve safety within a neighborhood. Providing a study on communities that are utilizing the Neighborhood Watch Programs will give insight into a neighborhood that should be able to come together to fight against crime and attempt to retake their community from criminals. This proposal will promote some level of self-involvement within a community to fight against crime. This proposal will also provide information on how individuals can strategically identify the problems within their community and provide a way to address the issues at hand. Furthermore, this proposal will demonstrate how individuals can fight against the crime in their neighborhood and become more proactive in achieving a better quality of life for themselves and others. The Purpose of the Program The proposal for a neighborhood watch program will elaborate on how a community-based program will educate the community on how to protect themselves and others against crime. The community must be willing to learn to take proactive approaches and act on addressing local...
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...Policies and Theories Veronica Vega: American Intercontinental University Abstract There are many theories that influenced many of the policies that we have today. Such as the Graffiti reduction program which has been influences by the argument of windows theory. Then there is the Neighborhood watch program which shows how the social disorganization theory has been influential to the program. Finally we have the Midnight Basketball program who is connected by the differential association theory. Below, all these theories and policies will be defined and there will be a better understanding on how all of these policies assisted the from decreasing violence around the community. Graffiti reduction programs include interventions that are employed on simple scales such as use of anti-graffiti paints to extensive multi-stakeholder programs. This multibillion dollar program is part of the crime prevention strategies targeting youths. The policy works on the belief that graffiti can cause social disorder as people associate the street art with presence of criminals and gangs in their neighborhoods. Stakeholders work together to eliminate existing graffiti as well as identifying perpetrators. The implementation of graffiti reduction programs have been influenced by arguments of windows theory. According to this theory, simple crimes, such as street violence, are harbingers of more serious disorders (Aiyer, Zimmerman...
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...WA 6 Final Report Research-Based Report Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/wa-6-final-report-research-based-report/ Writing - STARTING NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM Instructions WA #6 Final Report: Formal Research-Based Persuasive Report: Writing assignment #6 will be a research-based report that addresses a problem or issue within an organization. For this assignment, you will write a report of 2000-3000 words on a problem or issue within your workplace or community. You will identify a problem or issue within your organization or community. This may be a current place of employment or a community group, such as a church, school, homeowner's association, daycare, recreation center, soccer team, or other group. You will then complete the following in the report: • define the problem persuasively and accurately • propose a solution or solutions to the problem or issue • present that solution to a decision-maker or group of decision-makers who can implement the recommendation. The report will include the following components: • table of contents (optional) • introduction • body of the report to include headings and subheadings • conclusion stated as a recommendation for implementation of the solution • References page, with references listed in APA format The complete report should also cite at least five sources. At least one of them should come from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Your sources can also include interviews. The sources...
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...WA 6 Final Report Research-Based Report Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/wa-6-final-report-research-based-report/ Writing - STARTING NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAM Instructions WA #6 Final Report: Formal Research-Based Persuasive Report: Writing assignment #6 will be a research-based report that addresses a problem or issue within an organization. For this assignment, you will write a report of 2000-3000 words on a problem or issue within your workplace or community. You will identify a problem or issue within your organization or community. This may be a current place of employment or a community group, such as a church, school, homeowner's association, daycare, recreation center, soccer team, or other group. You will then complete the following in the report: • define the problem persuasively and accurately • propose a solution or solutions to the problem or issue • present that solution to a decision-maker or group of decision-makers who can implement the recommendation. The report will include the following components: • table of contents (optional) • introduction • body of the report to include headings and subheadings • conclusion stated as a recommendation for implementation of the solution • References page, with references listed in APA format The complete report should also cite at least five sources. At least one of them should come from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Your sources can also include interviews. The sources...
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...George Zimmerman Shooting and Killing of Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman is the 28-year-old neighborhood watchman who shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, a month ago. He has been keeping a low profile. He is in hiding after reportedly receiving several death threats and, for weeks, all the world saw of him was an unsmiling 2005 mug shot. As investigators and reporters try to piece together why the Floridian shot a black boy 10 years younger and dozens of pounds lighter, a fuzzy picture of Zimmerman is emerging. Here's what we know so far: George Michael Zimmerman was born in 1983, the third of four children of Robert and Gladys Zimmerman. Robert, a retired military man and magistrate judge, describes the family as multiracial, telling the Orlando Sentinel that "George is a Spanish-speaking minority with many black family members and friends." Gladys is of Peruvian descent. George grew up in Manassas, Va., where neighbors describe the Zimmermans as very religious — George was an altar boy and evening receptionist at the family's parish, All Saints Catholic Church. The Zimmerman children attended Catholic school through eighth grade, then public high school. The family moved to Florida about a decade ago. George married Shellie Nicole Dean, a cosmetologist, in 2007. For a living, at the time he shot Martin, Zimmerman was working as an underwriter at mortgage risk-management firm Digital Risk. He had also been working on an associates...
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...Neighborhood Watch Program Implementation CJ 3301 By Marcia University of Houston February 25, 2012 According to (Bennett, 2006, p.437), Neighborhood Watch is a crime prevention program that educates citizens to use techniques to reduce the risk of being a victim at home or in public by training citizens on the importance of recognizing suspicious activities and how to report them. Residents learn how to make their homes secure and properly identify their property. Neighborhood Watch also allows neighbors to get to know each other and their routines so that any out of place activity can be reported and investigated. I’m going to establish a neighborhood watch program in order to reduce crime in Crimeville. A neighborhood watch program can be implemented by first contact neighbors, ask them if they would be interested in meetings for crime prevention. Then, I would set up a time and place where the meetings can be held. I would also contact City Hall Municipal Service Department to see if they would be interested in attending the meeting. Next, I would give notice interested neighbors; let them know the time and the location for the meetings. I also could call them directly or develop a handout to pass out on meeting days. After that, I would choose and training an active body of volunteers that are directed by organized and motivated leaders in curtail. I believe that without a motivation and organization, volunteers may not be inspirited to practice and...
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...Debate Paper XBCOM/275 November 12, 2014 Heather Fontaine The topic that I have chosen for the subject of my debate paper is the trial of George Zimmerman. On February 26, 2012 a man that was unknown at the time was about to be the center of controversy when he shot and killed a 17 year old boy named Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. The man in question George Zimmerman was a patrolman for the local neighborhood watch in his area. Trayvon Martin was visiting his father who lived in a gated community one of which is where the shooting occurred. That morning Zimmerman had noticed a male lingering in the neighborhood, he then called the non-emergency line to report this. While on the phone with the police the dispatcher informed Mr. Zimmerman not to follow the individual and that police were on their way. When the police arrived moments later they did not find a male lingering in the neighborhood what they had found was Trayvon Martin on the ground lifeless he had been shot in the chest. As the police walked the crime scene, the items that were found were a cell phone, ear buds, iced tea and a bag of skittles, no gun. The only person that was holding a gun was Mr. Zimmerman, this was to be the only gun found at the scene. This sparked outrage within the town, state and country. Mr. Zimmerman was charged with murder and arrested, he had non-life threatening injuries to his head which were treated. Mr. Zimmerman was questioned for many hours, after being questioned...
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...(Memorize) For those who knew and loved his television program for children, Mr. Rogers needs no introduction. For those new to him, the best first meeting I can offer to you is through his words, captured by www.pbskids.org about embracing everyone as his neighbor: (Click for Slide, Read off Paper) “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I call these people my heroes.” (Click for Slide, Don’t read it) According to urbanlegens.about.com, It was Fred Rogers’ grandfather, Fred Brooks McFeely, who first said, “You’ve made this day a special day by just you being you, Freddy, and I like you just the way you are.” (Click for Slide- picture of him as a child) Born in 1928 and growing up a chubby, shy, and lonely boy in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, young Fred cherished his acceptance from his grandfather, who helped give him confidence by allowing him to grow. An only child until the age of 11, Fred often expressed himself through his fingers- by making up stories with hand puppets and pounding out emotions on the piano. (Click for Slide- picture of him in college age) As a music major in his final year of college preparing to go into the ministry, he returned home for Easter vacation and encountered his first television set. He was disgusted that this amazing new invention was being wasted on the nationwide broadcasting...
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...Esperanza Cordero and her experiences growing up in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago. Esperanza is a young girl whose family has moved frequently. She observes the different families that live around her and their problems. She does not feel that she belongs in this neighborhood and yearns for a home of her own. Her parents, her, and her three siblings all sleep in one room. The families around her are poor and many of her neighbors dream of a better life. Her mother consistently tells her that when they win the lottery things will change. She tells Esperanza that education is important and, from her own experience, not to let pride stop her from completing school. Esperanza dreams...
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...As a child, Esperanza wishes to leave her home on Mango Street so desperately; she is determined to vacate and feels no moral obligation to her community. Esperanza begins to get to know the individuals in her community and realizes that they all deal with their own personal problems. Esperanza recognizes that she is part of a community that is plagued by poverty. Esperanza’s reality is harsh, not only does she live in a rundown neighborhood, but she is a young girl coming of age who wants to find herself in a place she does not want to belong to. She is not fond of her name and would like to baptize herself under another name like Zeze the X in her effort to assimilate. Little does she know that she stands for hope in her community, and she...
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...The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a fictional novel about a twelve year old girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in a poor Latino neighborhood in Illinois, on Mango Street. Esperanza dislikes and is ashamed of her house on Mango Street because it represents her family’s poverty. During this time, in the 1980s, all women’s freedoms are restricted and controlled by the men. In her neighborhood, most women are restrained by their fathers or husbands, leading them to wait for someone to change the present society and let women be free. However, Esperanza is different from all of the women and strives to be independent of her poverty and men. Esperanza tells the story about her struggling to live in her neighborhood on Mango Street...
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