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4.Get to know your local police.  Build a partnership with your local police, focusing on solving problems before problems become a crisis.

5. Work with your neighbors; with the police or sheriff's department and other government agencies like parks, health, transportation, public works and highways; and with local elected officials to get any dangerous conditions in your neighborhood corrected.  Don't be shy about letting them know what your neighborhood needs and how your neighborhood can help keep conditions safe.

6. Make sure that children in your neighborhood have positive ways to spend their time during the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and during the summer months.  Volunteer to help organized recreation, tutoring programs, neighborhood clean-ups and all efforts that involve youth.  Hire a neighborhood youth to cut your grass.

7. Make sure your home and the street you live on are well-lighted.

8.Clean up your neighborhood!  Involve kids and their families.  Call your city, township, or borough and ask for help in cleaning up.

9. If there's a family facing problems in your neighborhood, reach out in friendship and support.  Sometimes people just need to know that they can talk to someone who's concerned.  Offer to take on routine chores, to babysit, to provide transportation, or just to listen.

10. Never think that crime can't happen where you live.  Help stop it before it starts.  For more information on how you can help keep your neighborhood safe, call ALERT Partnership at 610-402-2583.