neighborhood watch

noun

: an organization of neighbors who pay special attention to each other's houses in order to prevent crime

—often used before another noun

a neighborhood watch group/program

Examples of neighborhood watch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The reported arrests come after the violent assault was captured by surveillance cameras and publicized on social media by Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood watch group. —Michael Lee, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2023

In 2012, James led the Miami Heat in a protest of the death of Trayvon Martin, a Black teen wearing a hooded sweatshirt who was shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla. —Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office launched a search for the teen's identity shortly after the disturbing video was posted on social media and shared on the neighborhood watch app Nextdoor. —Stepheny Price, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023

Soon after the attacks, a sort of internet neighborhood watch arose, naming and flagging insurrectionists for the Justice Department. —Grace Segers, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2023

Camelot’s other claim to history is its neighborhood watch program, which began in 1979 and is recognized by the Virginia General Assembly as the oldest continuously active neighborhood crime prevention program in the United States. —Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023

Curtis Sliwa founded New York neighborhood watch group Guardian Angels in 1979 to patrol city streets at a time of widespread concern about violent crime. —WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023

Things picked up in June, when residents near Lexington reported that another chapter of the KKK had distributed flyers advertising themselves as a sort of neighborhood watch. —Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 July 2023

Florida’s law became well-known in 2012 after teenager Trayvon Martin, who was walking home from the store, was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. —Jaweed Kaleem, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023