Cabrillo Park Neighborhood Association

Welcome to Cabrillo Park Neighborhood Watch Association

People Working Together Can Make a Difference!

Welcome to Cabrillo Park Neighborhood/ Watch Association!

Crime and fear of crime threaten a community's well-being - people become afraid to use streets and parks, suspicion erupts between young and old, businesses gradually leave. Crime in turn feeds on the isolation it creates.

Today's lifestyles-many homes where both parents work, more single-parent families, and greater job mobility-can contribute to community isolation and weaken civic ties.

You and your neighbors can prevent or break this vicious cycle by joining our Neigborhood Watch Association, and in the process, build our community into a safer, friendlier and more caring place to live.

Statistics tell the story. Police and sheriffs' departments in cities, small towns, and suburbs throughout the country report substantial decreases in crime and fear because of local crime prevention efforts.

Start here and join our Neighborhood Watch Association to address immediate crime problems, focus on home security, and build neighborhood cohesion and then we will move into other areas such as educating you about child protection, drug abuse prevention, victim services, and domestic violence prevention and intervention. Explore circumstances in the community that might contribute to crime-such as traffic patterns, drug trafficking, few jobs or recreational opportunities for teenagers-and look for long range solutions.

Meetings, Block Captains, and Maps

With guidance from the Sacramento Police Departments officers they attend our meetings and train us in home security techniques, observation skills, etc. Residents also learn about the types of crime that affect the area.

We publicize our meetings through this website and also with lawn signs that you can pick up at our monthly meetings. Once you get a sign you can place the sign in the front of your yard at least one week before the scheduled meeting. The more signs out there the better.

One week in advance we ask that neighbor's on each block take turns & pass out fliers door-to-door and then follow-up with phone calls the day before the meeting to remind the neighbor's on their block.

We have selected a meeting place that is centralized for all neighbor's,and that is accessible to neighbor's with disabilities.

Our purpose is to to make ensure that all neighbor's attempt to make our neighborhood safe place to live.

Our Neighborhood Watch Meetings meetings are the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm during the school year from Sepember thru June in the cafeteria at John Bidwell Elementary School and at Livingstones Church on the corner of Amhearst & Florin Rd in the summer months of July & August.(Locations are subject to change at any time)

At our meetings we begin to identify issues that need to be addressed. We stress that a watch group is an association of neighbors who look out for each other's families and property, alert the police to any suspicious activities or crime in progress, and work together to make our community a safer and better place to live.

Our Neighborhood Association has as decided to be active with Neighborhood Watch Association. They compliment one another.

I am the current chair for the neighborhood Watch in our neighborhood and I am looking for someone to take my place as I am the President of Cabrillo Park Neighborhood Asociation and do not have the time to take on both positions.

We have about four Block Captains and we are in desperate need of more Block Captain Volunteers. In order to have an effective running Neighborhood Watch Association we need a Block Captain Volunteer for each block. You can sign up by attending a meeting or contacting Jessica Barraza.

The Block Captain is responsible for relaying information to members on their block. The Block Captain keeps up-to-date information on residents, and making special efforts to involve the elderly, working parents, and young people.

Block captains also can serve as liaisons between the neighborhood and the police and communicate information about meetings and crime incidents to all residents.

Block Captains establish a regular means of communicating with Watch members/neighbors- e.g. newsletter, telephone tree, e-mail, fax, etc.

Each Block Captain can prepare a neighborhood map showing names, addresses, and phone numbers of participating households and distribute to members. Block captains keep this map up to date, contacting newcomers to the neighborhood and rechecking occasionally with ongoing participants.

Organizers and block captains must emphasize that Watch groups are not vigilantes and do not assume the role of the police. They only ask neighbors to be alert, observant, and caring-and to report suspicious activity or crimes immediately to the police.

Neighborhood Watch Signs, Neighborhood Worksheets & Tips

Our Neighborhood Association has purchased Neighborhood Watch Signs signs that will be posted up throughout our neighborhood to show neighbor's that we are an active Neighborhood Watch Association and to scare crime away. As soon as they are approved by the city the will be posted in the neighborhood.

We also have Neighborhood Watch Signs for your home that active neighbor's in the Neighborhood Watch Association can purchase at our monthly meetings.

We ask that if you have free time to canvas door-to-door to recruit members.
Involve everyone-young and old, single and married, renter and homeowner.

We will gain support from the police department by meeting them half way and doing our part. We are there eyes when they are not around.This is critical to a Watch group's credibility. These agencies are the major sources of information on local crime patterns, home security, other crime prevention education, and crime reporting.

Get the information out quickly. Share all kinds of news-quash rumors.
Gather the facts about crime in your neighborhood. Check police reports, do victimization surveys, and learn residents' perceptions about crime. Often residents' opinions are not supported by facts, and accurate information can reduce fear of crime.
Physical conditions like abandoned cars or overgrown vacant lots contribute to crime. Sponsor cleanups, encourage residents to beautify the area, and ask them to turn on outdoor lights at night.

We will celebrate the success of the effort and recognize volunteers' contributions through such events as awards, annual dinners, picnics and or parties.

To help meet community needs our Neighborhood Watch Association will sponsor meetings that address broader issues such as drug abuse, gangs, self-protection tactics, isolation of the elderly, crime in the schools, and rape prevention.

Hope to see you at our next meeting.
Jessica Barraza
Neighborhood Watch Chair

Email us
Cabparkneighbor@aol.com