We live in a very quiet, historic neighborhood in South Florida but in the past year, a neighbor’s home and several cars have been burglarized, threatening everyone’s peace of mind.

In the midst of all this, our neighbors have decided to be more vigilant so the other day  it occurred to me that if we really thought this through we could use my good friend, social media,  to fight crime and help make our families and homes safer.

The Twitter crime prevention idea I’m going to outline for you here is probably not new but I’ve done some Google searches on this topic and I can’t find anything like it.   Hopefully this neighborhood watch trick will be as useful to your neighborhood as it will be to mine.     (more…)