- Only organized neighborhoods can join Neighborhood Guard as members.
- Individual persons are encouraged to volunteer in the organization.
Typical member organizations include:
- Home Owners Associations (HOA)
- Neighborhood Watch Groups
- Other Crime prevention Groups such as:
- Crime stoppers
- Block Parents
- Crime watch
- Montclair Organized Neighborhoods. (MONs)
Signing up and getting started.
- Request a presentation using the “Presentation Page“
- Setup your organization if needed
- Make a budget and collect the money
- Scout ideal locations in your neighborhood and make agreements with host families.
- Review the Neighborhood Guard bylaws
- Complete the enrollment form
- Pay the enrollment fee.
- Order the starter kit for the first camera (the pilot installation). Please use the links to Amazon on the starter kit page to ensure that donations go to Neighborhood Guard.
- Order signs and decoy cameras, using the links on the pages
- Assemble work crew of your neighbors to install signs, decoys and cameras
- Order the Cloud storage using our link / coupon code to ensure donation to Neighborhood Guard.
- Setup time with an another Neighborhood Guard member to help with the actual installation.
- Fine-tune installation of first camera, move it as needed to get the best images.
- Show your neighborhood group that you managed to get the pilot installation running by showing cool photos from your own neighborhood and fund-raise the remaining funds for all the cameras needed.
- Use common sense to only buy the items from the starter kit that you need for your additional cameras. (use our link again to ensure Amazon donates to Neighborhood Guard)
- Repeat installation of additional cameras.
- Convince other neighborhoods to join the movement and help them get up and running, remember ‘Any criminal caught in another neighborhood is one less criminal coming to your neighborhood.‘
- Glow in the feeling that you are doing something to fight crime in your area 🙂