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Community activist says neighborhood watch is answer to perceived property crime surge When someone shot at Ruby Armorer three years ago in Severn, many of her neighbors tried to keep safe by staying in their homes. Armorer, who moved to an Upper Marlboro neighborhood in 2006, made a point of staying on the streets, taking her pit bull for daily walks and looking for suspicious activity. were afraid to leave their houses, said Armorer, who says the shooting was random. thought, not going to be locked up. said she was able to reduce crime in her neighborhood by making regular patrols and encouraging her neighbors to do the same. Now she wants to do the same for Knolls at Cabin Branch, a small neighborhood near Upper Marlboro, where she has started a neighborhood watch program in response to what she says is a recent increase in crime. Armorer says there has been a surge of burglaries and vandalism in the usually quiet neighborhood within the past year and shots fired on Sept. 24. The Prince George County Police Department public affairs office could not confirm the increase by press time, but an officer who works with Armorer said she is serious about reducing crime. think I going to have to hold her back, joked Sgt. Robert McConnell of the District II Community Response Team, which works with local leaders and community groups on behalf of county police. hands on, active, said McConnell, who said he started working with Armorer last week. He said neighborhood watch programs help police because they share information about threats in their community and help deter crime without police involvement. say to [neighborhoods], me help you, said McConnell, who noted that most criminals start out by committing the kinds of minor offenses neighborhood watches often respond to. The existence of neighborhood watch programs it easier for us to give more effective law enforcement to the community, he said. Three neighborhood watch block captains, Kevin Taylor, Bonita Taylor and Melvina Lewis, have volunteered in the last two weeks, as well as two alternates who patrol their streets when the captains are not available. But Armorer started going on patrol months earlier, in May. She said she makes her rounds three times each day, early in the morning, in the evening and late at night. McConnell said the neighborhood problems are harder to deal with because residents are just beginning to recognize them now, and he praised Armorer for taking an active role as early as she did. got to get people proactive, McConnell said. Armorer said that getting community members involved has been a long process. don care, she said. just don care now. she hopes the recent increase in crime will encourage people in her neighborhood to become more active in protecting their community.
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