{"id":27101,"date":"2013-10-10T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=27101"},"modified":"2013-10-10T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:28:48","slug":"lehigh-acres-celebrating-safe-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/10\/lehigh-acres-celebrating-safe-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Celebrating<br> Safe Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27102\" title=\"CelebrateSafeCommunities\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CelebrateSafeCommunities-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CelebrateSafeCommunities-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CelebrateSafeCommunities.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In an effort to create a safer environment within the Lehigh Acres Community several organizations are organizing events to support the month-long initiative of \u201cCelebrate Safe Communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday October 17th, 2013 the Lehigh Community Watch Coordinators (CWC) are organizing a walk to promote the importance of Neighborhood Watch programs. Neighborhood Watch is one of the oldest and best-known crime prevention concepts in North America.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1960s, an increase in crime heightened the need for a crime prevention initiative focused on residential areas and involving local citizens. The National Sheriffs\u2019 Association (NSA) responded, creating the National Neighborhood Watch Program in 1972 to assist citizens and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Over the past several years law enforcement nationwide, burdened with decreased budgets and the desire to maintain service levels, has relied more on these crime prevention programs to assist law enforcement by identifying and reporting suspicious activity in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The Command Staff of the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office substation in Lehigh Acres, along with Crime Prevention Practitioner Larry Gutridge and Lehigh CWC Chairman Steve McGiffin\u00a0are committed to the growth and stabilization of the program and encourage members of the community to join in the walk.\u00a0 The one-mile walk begins at 6:15 p.m.at the Sheriff\u2019s substation located at 1301 Homestead Road North, Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to create a safer environment within the Lehigh Acres Community several organizations are organizing events to support the month-long initiative of \u201cCelebrate Safe Communities.&#8221; On Thursday October&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}