Welcome to the Prevention Works! This blog is run by the National Crime Prevention Council and is meant to be a place to discuss the latest news and ideas in crime prevention.
Too often communities start focusing on crime after it has taken root. A major crime sparks a public outcry to fight back – usually through temporary measures like increasing the police presence. But a more effective way to keep neighborhoods safe is to stop crime before it starts.
The best way to do this is by getting people involved in their community and connecting them with their neighbors and with local law enforcement. There are many effective ways to do this and you’re probably already familiar with some of them, like Neighborhood Watch. In future posts we’ll talk about ways communities and law enforcement can work together to prevent crime and about how to get a handle on specific issues like graffiti, violence in schools, and many other issues.
We want this blog to serve as a place where we can discuss these issues, and we want it to be a way that we can hear back from you. We invite you to comment on any post, especially if you have a different opinion or a question you’d like answered. To avoid spam and profane language, all comments will be reviewed before they are posted but we are committed to posting and responding to your comments as soon as it’s possible. If you have something to say that you don’t want to make public, you can always email us.
Again, welcome to Prevention Works. We hope you enjoy it!
Prevention of crime is so important to society and presently not enough steps are taken to prevent crimes. For every $1.00 that is spent on treating victims, .01 cent is spent on prevention. Therefore, we are so pleased to see this blog. The FBI Web site is an excellent site to gain knowlege concerning expert research and statistics on many crimes, especially realizing the direction in which crimes will increase if preventive steps are not taken now, such as juvenile crime. As a nation, we will be victimized by many juveniles at alarming rates by 2010, if we do not hear the battlecry to help our juveniles immediately. Please review the Web site www.hopeforchildrenfoundation.org for additional free information concerning what steps each family can take to help live abuse free lives.
Patricia Kirby
Founder & Executive Director
Hope For Children Foundation
214-558-9552
louise_4673@yahoo.com
Posted by: Patricia Kirby | August 07, 2006 at 11:23 AM
Thank you Patricia for passing on information about the Hope For Children Foundation. It seems like an organization that is doing great work.
And you're right - much more can be done to prevent crime and further fund this work. We hope that this blog will help call attention to that and show people all over the country ways that they can keep crime out of their communities.
Posted by: Bonnie Bogle | August 07, 2006 at 03:07 PM