Neighborhood Watches: Real or Myth?

Myth. I loot all the time in supposed neighborhood watch areas. False sense of security = easy target.

I’ve lived in several neighborhoods with active neighborhood watch. It was usually an excuse for the retired baws to hang out, drink, and play poker on their front porches late at night keeping “watch”.

You can't flim flam the Zim Zam.

Cross BRgetthenet and find out how real they are.

Neighborhood Watch = Nosy old women in neighborhood

Probably very financially risky if formal due to liability.

Imagine if a Kang were to be killed.
Lawsuits, and riots. All because the Neighborhood Watch be Killin young kangz.

We have a very active NW in our area, over 200 members and 45 patrollers. The patrollers do a two-hour patrol every other week.

Effective? In 2010, our neighborhood of over 250 homes had 22 burglaries in seven weeks. That's when the NW was started. We now see one or two per month.

Oh, and the comment about the Neighborhood Watches being nosy old women? Nosy old women are some of the best law enforcement sources in the world. They know who belongs on the street and who doesn't and are always watching.

Myth in most cases. But, that is not to say that the residents do not keep an eye out and post FB and Nextdoor observations about who or what they see out there.