Sentences with phrase «as neighborhood watches»

My motto is «prevent crime by reducing the fear of crime» and I use this to bring community members together and indulge in crime prevention measures such as neighborhood watches.

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The couple built the house in 1959 and watched as their neighborhood, once green with plenty of space for backyards and swing sets, vanished.
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An early trailblazer of Brooklyn's Dumbo district, Big Spaceship has watched from the front row as the neighborhood has blossomed into a destination for creative, tech and media startups.
And those who work from home can act as a sort of neighborhood watch, keeping neighborhoods safer.
The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.
With a certain Florida neighborhood watch group so much in the news, New Yorkers might be puzzled to note that we have such groups operating here as well.
Yesterday, a gunman mercilessly assassinated NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu through the front passenger window of their patrol car as the police officers sat keeping watch over a neighborhood in Brooklyn.
In his home neighborhood, Higgins says he is seeing everyone from the building trades working and as the son of a bricklayer, he watches that issue.
I have been watching with growing alarm as our City government continues to flounder, making little if any headway on issues such as police and community relations, rampant violence, decaying relationships with neighborhood organizations and the lack of progress on jobs, poverty and education.
Syracuse, NY - KyArie Rolon, 12, watched in his front yard on Marcellus Street as his mom, a paramedic, told her story about buying her first home last fall in a neighborhood she hopes will fill up with others who look out for each other.
After witnessing 9/11 as a teenager and then watching the neighborhood rebuild, Xie said he joined the community board partly to work on issues related to the World Trade Center development.
UC ANR entomologist Anthony Cornel, left, and U.S. Congressman Jim Costa watch as male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia pipientis are released in a Clovis neighborhood on Aug. 16, 2016.
We watched from our front porch as our neighborhood exploded with growth [along with property values and taxes].
As Sam watches «Papa» Joe care for and love the kids in his under - resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life's circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.
Milk watches the neighborhood as it transforms from a working - class block to the country's most famous gay enclave, and his political fortune changes along with it.
Neighborhood Watch Marketing On Hold: Speaking of appropriate decisions, it may not help the film's marketing effort, but the folks behind the Neighborhood Watch promotional campaign have decided to remove teaser posters and the teaser trailer from movie theaters in Florida as a result of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch capWatch Marketing On Hold: Speaking of appropriate decisions, it may not help the film's marketing effort, but the folks behind the Neighborhood Watch promotional campaign have decided to remove teaser posters and the teaser trailer from movie theaters in Florida as a result of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch capWatch promotional campaign have decided to remove teaser posters and the teaser trailer from movie theaters in Florida as a result of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch capwatch captain.
Unfortunately, even with a decent concept and cast, there aren't nearly enough laughs to qualify this as a neighborhood must - watch.
And this could have been really dull, but Stapleton has made an uncanny decision to shoot each interviewee in a different location and scenario — we watch Bruce Dern talk about «The Wild Angels» while getting his hair cut; Jonathan Demme speaks about starting out with Roger while riding in the back of a town car (he's wearing a TV On The Radio sweatshirt, of course); Ron Howard is strolling around his posh Connecticut neighborhood as he bemoans his measly 3 % ownership of «Grand Theft Auto.»
The work involved in scheduling the neighborhood visit, obtaining supplies, and organizing volunteers paid off when Long and her colleagues watched the children's faces as they laid eyes on the book - bearing Santa.
We watched as a cloud of dust and dirt rose to the sky from a poverty - stricken neighborhood nearby, and we could hear the yelling of the injured.
Watch what happens as they talk to each other, and if this trailer interests you, check to see if there's a screening or workshop in your neighborhood.
At a neighborhood school in Washington, D.C., we watch as teachers infuse global themes into everyday lessons — a kindergarten discussion on community helpers, a 2nd grade reading class, and 4th grade math and history lessons — to foster the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of global competence.
The sisters, whose close and supportive friendship held strong all through Mace's imprisonment, are still watching each other's backs, and now they're zeroing in on a web of murder and deception that is spiraling outward, taking in D.C.'s darkest criminal neighborhoods as well as the upper echelons of Washington's political hierarchy.
In this wordless story, children watch Tracy grow up as her neighborhood, shown through a window of her home, is transformed from a community of concrete and graffiti to a place of greenery and scenic beauty.
Get involved in other ways such as caring for neighborhood feral cats before and after TNR by providing an outdoor shelter, food and water, watching for signs of disease, and monitoring a cat colony post-surgery and post-return.
In the busy little daily bustle on the island, it might be easy to miss the Town Council trucks grumbling over speed bumps, but if you watch for them, they are there, hauling load after load of gravel to be spread on worn roads throughout every neighborhood as a follow - up to this year's rainy season.
According to the poll, New Orleans was the best U.S. city as a spring break destination and for «wild weekends», stylish boutique hotels, cocktail hours, singles / bar scenes, live music / concerts and bands, antique and vintage shops, cafés / coffee bars, neighborhood restaurants, and people watching.
As I watched her play, I remembered many of the good experiences I had with the game, like zooming in close on a neighborhood and watching the Sims living out their lives, checking out what businesses have moved into a recently zoned commercial area, or seeing my first skyscrapers built in the heart of my city.
As the performances unfold, assumptions are turned — a Tupperware party or neighborhood watch meeting turns into a xenophobic scramble for handguns; a demonstration of a robotic tool for distance learning transforms into a duck - and - cover drill; a rally led by cheerleaders becomes an elaborate musical number that has the audience chanting anti-abortion slogans.
Aspects of the constellation of materials Schultz has used in past iterations — moonboots, angle stabilizers, stencils, and prints — resurface in her engagement with the Hyde Park neighborhood — where the tripod, as a mechanic apparatus of looking and watching, coalesces with technology, like a drone into nature.
As a longtime resident of Harlem, he has watched his neighborhood gentrify, and much of his art is a response to those changes.
Museumgoers can watch as Carnegie Mellon University architecture students draw up their own remedy for an example of renewal that Mayor Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh called a «failed model of urbanism»: the 1965 Allegheny Center, a mixed - use superblock development separated from its neighborhood by a four - lane traffic circle.
In a recent profile on Ward in the Wall Street Journal, New Museum curator Gary Carrion - Murayari is quoted as saying, «This neighborhood has changed and Harlem has obviously changed radically, and Nari was watching it happen.
But as I was watching this amazing show put on by the earth, moon and sun, I thought about all the people in my neighborhood, all the people across the country, and all the people in the part of the world where it was visible, who were coming together at the same time to watch this event and marvel and talk about it.
She's watched with worry as other homes in her neighborhood that flooded sell for less than expected.
Adding a burglar or fire alarm can also help you curb cost, as can joining a neighborhood watch group.
Another discount for you is safety features such as fire extinguishers and joining a neighborhood watch association.
Just as we remind ourselves to watch for kids in neighborhoods, we should remind ourselves of bikers.
One of the best ways to lower your premium rate is by taking safety measures such as installing an alarm or fire detector and joining a neighborhood watch association.
Since you can wear it as a watch, you don't have to worry about having your phone with you while you're running in your neighborhood or just running some errands.
I have been married 26 years, my husband stopped wearing his wedding ring about 5 years ago, and refuses to put it on, even though I have expressed the discomfort I feel, watching him leave the house everyday, advertising himself as a single man, in a neighborhood like NYC.
it's pretty tough for me to list my absolute favorite - ist thing about my favorite season, but if I had to choose it would be the combined smell of rain and burning wood in the air as I picture all the families in my neighborhood snuggling down for the evening under their favorite blankie, nibbling a pumpkin cookie and watching the flames dance in their fireplace.
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