How to Make Your Neighborhood Drug-Free

Follow these guidelines to clean out your neighborhood - based on the recommendations of the U.S. Department of Education and the National Crime Prevention Council.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Banners
• Bonded Paper
• Envelopes
• Pens
• Flyers
• Flyers
• Pens

1. Form a neighborhood watch group, a community patrol or block association. Recruit your neighbors to patrol the streets and record license-plate numbers of suspicious vehicles.

2. Work actively with the police. Invite them to your neighborhood meetings and inform them of suspicious activities.

3. Provide neighborhood young people with positive activities as alternatives to being involved with drugs.

4. Enlist the aid of your city public works department to clean up the streets. They can help put up bright lights, sweep up litter, paint over graffitti and plant flowers.

5. Put banners and signs, or even use a loudspeaker or bullhorn, to publicly broadcast to dealers that your community is alert to their activities.

6. Protest businesses and landlords who allow or ignore drug dealers and their actions.

7. Organize block parties and neighborhood volleyball games to show dealers a strong, united front.

8. Encourage your children! Reinforce anti-drug attitudes, and reassure your kids that you love them and that they don't need drugs.

Tips & Warnings

• Drug dealers tend to avoid neighborhoods where the community stands united against their efforts, regardless of its level of affluence.
• Leave policing to law enforcement officers. Getting involved with drug dealers or suspicious people who may be armed is dangerous.

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[DLessem]

on 8/17/2009 Be sure to protest area bars, liquor stores and restaurants, as they serve or allow consumption of drugs that lead to more deaths than all illegal drugs combined: alcohol and tobacco.

[handikitty]

on 7/30/2009 Ok, protecting children is one thing. But the first parts of this article should have been called, "How to make your neighbors paranoid, snoopy, gestapo." I mean, writing down license plates??? Give people their privacy!!!

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[vinnymac]

on 4/3/2009 Accurate statistics on the prevalence of child and adolescent sexual abuse are difficult to collect because of problems of under-reporting and the lack of one definition of what constitutes such abuse. However, there is general agreement among mental health and child protection professionals that child sexual abuse is not uncommon and is a serious problem in the United States. - Anonymous Source of the Industrial Co Pedo fund.

[apere13]

on 4/3/2009 OK. What if I want to be the only drug dealer on the block... do the same rules apply?