Economic Wellbeing: Safe Neighborhood Surveillance

Economic Wellbeing

     The solution to poverty is to take the attributes of successful neighborhoods and implant them into challenged neighborhoods.   The one major factor which enables economic wellbeing is a safe neighborhood.

     The safest neighborhood in America according to Neighborhood Scout is Ridgefield, Connecticut.  If 100 is the safest then Ridgefield has a crime index of 97. Annually the city has one violent crime and 65 crimes against poverty.  The place with the highest crime rate is Andover, Massachusetts with a crime index of 65 out of 100. Andover had 8 violent crimes and 343 crimes against property. Violent crime is defined as murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The US average is 41.4.

  

      Taking a look at a city such as Baltimore, Maryland the crime index is 3 out of 100 with violent crimes at 8,499 and property crime rated at 29, 933. In this solution initiative, Brimingwith is treating neighborhoods in major cities as small towns.  Taking a look at the Sandtown neighborhood zipcodes are used to determine the crime rate where low crime on a scale of 100 is one.  Sandtown is on a high of 98.  Property Crime is 93.2.

Places with high crime ratings can lower their crime by becoming e-villages.

 E-villages install hidden and heavy surveillance with signs 

Extensive Surveillance notification 

3      Property and personal alarm systems

4      Neighborhood safety officer(s)

With the United Kingdom as one the biggest proponents of closed circuit televisions, installing CCTV is no longer an option, but a necessity for neighborhoods with high crime rating.  
A number of studies show e-surveillance with a defined length of duration reduces crime.