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Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't ___
1___ drive to a store and back home.
He always looks ___
2___ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___
3___
such as strange cars, loud noises, ___
4___ windows, or people gathering on street corners.
Tim ___
5___ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch
group ___
6___ on the third Wednesday of every month. That's ___
7___ Tim gets together with about ten
of his neighbors to discuss community ___
8___ .Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help
the police ___
9___ their homes, streets, and families safe.
Tina Stedman, president of ___
10___ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. "People seem to think
that crime happens to other people but not to them. Well, it's never happened to me," she said, "but I don't
think anyone has the ___
11___ to steal from other people or to make them feel ___
12___ sitting in their
own homes."
Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors ___
13___ out for one another, "We watch each other's homes. We keep watch ___
14___ the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a group of
four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the police. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for___
15___, or someone destroying property, we report to the police."
Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups help a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees,
"Police are good people, but they can't do everything."
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