USE YOUR EYES AND EARS!
You can help make your neighborhood safer by being observant and reporting unusual or suspicious activities to the police.

What to Report:

Someone…

• Looking into the windows of parked cars.
• Wandering around with no apparent purpose.
• Carrying property such as radio, TV’s, stereos, microwave ovens.
• Trying to enter a car by using a coat hanger or other device.
• Loitering around schools and playgrounds.

Or…

• A moving van or truck parked in front of a neighbor’s home.
• The sound of breaking glass.
• A child or adult being forced into a vehicle.
• Business transactions which are conducted from or in a vehicle.
• Door-to-door solicitors without properly issued licenses.
• A stranger to the neighborhood stopping to talk to a child or elderly resident.
• Someone screaming or running from a car or home.

Important information the Police will need to know:

• What happened
• When
• Where
• If anyone is hurt
• License numbers and vehicle descriptions
• Direction of travel
• Descriptions of suspects
• If there were weapons involved

REMEMBER: THE POLICE WOULD RATHER BE CALLED AND NOT NEEDED THAN NEEDED AND NOT CALLED.

Crime Prevention tips from:

The National Crime Prevention Council
1700 K Street, N.W.
Second Floor
Washington D.C. 20006

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Updated January 12th, 2002