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Community Watch programs returning to prominence

By Dave Herndon
The News-Herald
Twitter: @NHDaveH

Published: Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Neighborhood watch programs can help to build unity within a block, or even an entire city, as well as help to prevent crime.  There are hundreds of neighborhood watch or similar programs across the state, dozens of which are in southern Wayne County.

Some of those watch programs are city-wide, while others are simply a single block within the the community. Two of the more successful programs in he region are in Dearborn Heights and Lincoln Park, while a fledgling program in Allen Park struggles to get underway.

Watch programs used to exist in nearly every community Downriver, but as property values and tax revenues have dropped, so have resources that were spent on community policing.  Both Lincoln Park and Dearborn Heights have been using Community Development Block Grant money to fund the programs.  Dearborn Heights calls its program the Community Awareness program in the city, but also has some civic associations in certain neighborhoods.

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