Community Crime Prevention

While we love collaborating face-to-face, we know that it is difficult to attend regular meetings. In order to get more residents involved in preventing crime in Brighton, we encourage you to utilize Nextdoor.

Nextdoor is a social network made up of real people at real addresses. By requiring members to use their real name and verified address, it creates trust and accountability. 

Here are some ways you can use Nextdoor to facilitate neighborhood watch:

• Post messages about property crime trends you may observe, incident-specific information you may know, and crime prevention tips you have learned.
• Post messages to encourage your neighbors to identify and report suspicious behavior and crime to the police.
• Post urgent alerts after you’ve called 911 to communicate about criminally suspicious behaviors you’ve witnessed.

Please remember, Nextdoor's Community Guidelines prohibit racial profiling. Racial profiling includes assuming someone is suspicious because of their race or ethnicity, or giving descriptions of suspects that are so vague as to cast suspicion over an entire race or ethnicity.

For more information about how to communicate about crime on Nextdoor, view the full Nextdoor Virtual Neighborhood Watch Guide.