3 things to improve a neighborhood's crime rate?

Answer 1

Neighborhood watch, community involvement and helping people when they need help

Answer 2

I don't buy into the idea that a three bullet item list works for every neighborhood.

You have to understand the problem in order for your solutions to work.

What does crime rate mean? Is it violent crimes or domestic violence? What is the particular thing called "crime rate" that you are trying to reduce? Be specific.

How do you know that it exists? How meaningful is your metrology? If its police reports, then moving the police out of your neighborhood will reduce the reporting rate, and therefore the perceived crime rate. If its the actual rate, then maybe police reports are only part of the picture, and the actual crime rate is higher than the reported crime rate. Build a reasonable way to determine the level of what it is. Having "multiple phenomenology", or multiple independent ways to measure the rates, is very useful.

Now that you know what the problem is, and how to tell what its magnitude is, you are done with the easy part. Next you have to determine what the driving force behind it is. Are more break-ins occurring because there's a gang moving in, or because there is an epidemic of crystal meth and your upper-class kids cant get their parents to support a $2 grand a week habit. Know the perps, and find out the fundamental forces driving the phenomena.

You aren't done learning yet. If you try to come up with something now you are quitting early.

You are part of the situation. What are your resources. What is available? What are the options? Can you get neighborhood services to help? What about the county department that fights slum-lords? What about the county anti-gang task force? What about the police? Be sure to work through legitimate channels. Be sure to have multiple people acting as leaders. My sister used to transport drugs with the city police in Silver City NM. Police are human beings, as are humans in every government agency. If they are on a payroll, or hooked on something, and you work through just an officer, and not through the office, you can get hurt. Use official channels, and make a paper trail for the government organizations you recruit to help. Don't keep lists of people in the neighborhood who help at this point.

Clearly state what the problem is. State all relevant knowns. State what the resources are that are available to solve the problem. Write out what is promised, and then make a lower estimate (50%) of that, and that is more likely what will be delivered. So you have two cases, the ideal, and the realistic. Share this with a team of people who will help work on ideas.

Using the knowns ideate reasonable solutions. Working on a team to come up with ideas is better. The best process by far is to have everybody build an understanding of the problem and give no solution, then have an assignment of going home and coming up with 100 possible (even if way out) solutions to the problem. Its the one quiet person who has that one idea that so often turns out to be the most awesome thing you've ever seen. So you separate, idea, come together, collate/aggregate, and then analyze. Its best to first group ideas into categories, then later to rank them. Again, weighted multivoting is a lot better. I hate to say it, but too many times I have been a loud-mouth advocate of a bad idea. If you want a team to face the problem, their opinions must mean as much as anybody elses. Logarithmic weighted multivoting works best.

After the solutions have been voted on, pursue them. Build "SMART" (Specific Measurable Actionable Relevant and Timely) ways to tell that each step of the plan is completed well before going to the next.

This whole process, except the implementing, should take around 2 weeks for two people (or one really industrious person). The first week you have one person finding resources, one person studying the problem. In 2 days you will know what the problem is, and those two people can then work on building metrology and a problem statement. The second week they share the problem statement widely, get ideation, group it in the first 2-3 days. They share all the grouped ideas the second 2-3 days.

In 2 weeks an entire community, including city, county, state, and federal groups have been informed what the problem is, that its a problem, where it comes from, and how it is measured. They have worked together to come up with easily 500 potential ideas, all of which were then re-shared, and evaluated. A community consensus with regards to the problem has been made.

If that doesn't solve the problem nothing will. There is no dirty cop, no family of meth-dealers, that can take a single neighborhood suddenly doing that. Its more costly to fight that battle than to move elsewhere. When they move, share the technique with the new neighborhood.

Note: often young adult males (14-24) are the people who commit violent crimes. Instituting a very early curfew (6pm) for teenagers without parental supervision might be productive. Local malls think so.

Another thing that works well is bad publicity, and several large cities do that. Whenever you are arrested, your picture & what you were arrested for is published in the local paper. A neighborhood version of that, once per week, could be a very powerful incentive, telling folks who is doing what when. Its a great way to get parents who might otherwise do nothing at least partly involved in their kids lives.

I have heard of neighborhoods that arrange with the city & the parks and recreation department to close off a small street every Saturday and have games & activities for kids. They also have instituted summer-lunch program cause sometimes these kids aren't otherwise eating and they really are stealing for food. I have heard that programs like that have great results.

Answer 3

1) Find out what you are doing the make the criminals hate you. Then give them whatever they want so they'll stop.

2) Have all the police withdraw from your neighborhood. After all it is the police presence that creates criminals.

3) Ask criminals from nearby neighborhoods to help patrol your neighborhood because they will steal you blind so that your criminals will have nothing to take.

Answer 4

Neighborhood watch
Police cruisers seen
Better lighting

That would of been easier if you would of given what the problem was but even so this is what I think is an improvement.

Answer 5

Open communication between neighbors.
Neighbors watching out for one another.
Neighborhood Watch Program.

Answer 6

Join the NRA and then put the sticker on you back window.

Answer 7

1. Vote republican
2. Vote republican
3. Vote republican

Answer 8

sit on your porch all night cleaning a shot gun.

Answer 9

clean your yard
meet the neighbors
buy a gun

Answer 10

You mean reduce right?