Neighborhood Safety
- Home Security Checklist
- A checklist for evaluating home safety and security
- Lock Crime OUT of Your Home
- Informative brochure on the importance of securing your home
- A Safety Checklist for Apartments
- A checklist for evaluating apartment safety and security
- Don't Let Your Guard Down Just Because You Live in the Country
- Informative brochure on keeping your home secure in the country
- Streetwise: The Way To Be
- Informative brochure about staying safe in your neighborhood
- Disaster Preparedness: A Checklist
- Free, helpful resource to make sure you're prepared in the event of a disaster
- Working Safely At Home
- Informative brochure on working safely from home
- Don't Make it Easy for a Thief to Steal Your Wheels
- Informative brochure on securing your car
- Robbers are Equal Opportunity Criminals
- This reproducible brochure explains what you can do to reduce your chances of being robbed and ways to react while being robbed and after.
- Taking Back Your Neighborhood
- Free, helpful resource on making your community safe
- Take A Stand Against Crime: Join Neighborhood Watch
- Informative brochure on reducing crime by participating in Neighborhood Watch
- Starting a Neighborhood Watch
- Free, helpful resource on starting a Neighborhood Watch program
- Checklist for Starting a Neighborhood Watch
- Free, helpful resource on starting a Neighborhood Watch program
- Law Enforcement Needs Your Help
- Informative brochure on how to help law enforcement reduce crime
- Newspaper Mat: Get Teens Involved in Making Communities Safer
- Free, helpful resource on getting teens involved in preventing crime
- Newspaper Mat: Protect Your Neighborhood Against Crime, Terrorism
- Free, helpful resource on protecting your neighborhood from crime and terrorism
- Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime?
- A comprehensive review of evaluations of Neighborhood Watch concludes that the program has a "small favorable effect" on crime.
- Neighborhood Safety Survey
- A short survey to analyze the safety of your neighborhood
- Home Security: Invest In It Now
- Informative brochure
- At Home Alone: A Parent's Guide
- Informative brochure
- Raising Streetwise Kids: A Parent's Guide
- Informative brochure
- The Smart Route to Bicycle Safety
- Informative brochure
- Locking Your Home
- Tells you what you need to know before buying locks for your house.
- Securing the Future for Safer Youth and Communities
- A full-text publication that informs adults about the effectiveness of crime prevention in creating safe communities for youth
- Neighborhood Watch Needs You
- Neighborhood Watch is coming to your community, and we need you to get involved! The program embraces and strengthens many things we're already doing, such as watching out for each other's homes or working together to solve problems. But Neighborhood Watch brings along the power of organization and the ability to focus energy and resources.
- Neighborhood Watch: Make It a Permanent Force for Community Betterment
- Full-text publication
- Neighborhood Watch Organizer's Guide
- Works as a guide for creating and sustaining a successful Neighborhood Watch program, and covers everything from motivating the community to running successful meetings.
- Gas Station Theft Poster #1
- McGruff takes on theft at gas stations with this full-color poster in PDF format.
- Gas Station Theft Poster #2
- McGruff takes on gas station theft with this full-color poster in PDF format.
- Bumping: A Trend in Home Burglary
- Newspaper Mat Feature: If your home is protected with an ordinary lock, it may not do you much good, says the National Crime Prevention Council. Thieves have caught on to an increasingly popular technique called “bumping.”
- Building or Remodeling a Home? Think Lock Security
- Newspaper Mat Feature: During the exciting time of having your house built or remodeled, make sure to consider one of the most important features that will keep you and your family safe for years to come: security.
- Locking Doors Still Best
- Newspaper Mat Feature: Not so long ago, people did not feel the need to lock their doors or windows. But times have changed, and so has the need to use locks for protection.
- Good Neighbors Make Safer Communities
- A reproducible handout from the 2009-2010 Crime Prevention Month Kit with tips to prevent crime in your neighborhood.
- Travel Safety Tips Flier
- Travel Safety Tips Flier from National Crime Prevention Council and McGruff The Crime Dog.