Crime Needes - Crime Reduction and Prevention

Crime has the potential to significantly impact the lives of residents in neighborhoods. Its negative

outcomes range from graffiti to major assaults and sometimes homicide.These impacts can produce unhealthy lifestyles (drugs, stress, assault), reduce educational success, and drive businesses from the community.

The goal of neighborhood leaders and residents should be to encourage and help maintain coordinated services to youth, families, and neighborhoods that reduce and ultimately prevent criminal behavior and activities through coordinating alternative positive and productive resources and programs (click a link below) that include: