Thank you for agreeing to Meet the Challenge and start a Neighborhood Watch group! As part of the newly-created Citizen Corps initiative, President Bush has challenged Americans to become involved locally in homeland security efforts, and one way to do this is to start a Neighborhood Watch group.

Law enforcement agencies depend on alert citizens to identify and report things that seem out of the ordinary in their neighborhoods, communities, and places of business. By working through Neighborhood Watch networks, the public can play a potentially crucial role in the detection, disruption and prevention of terrorist acts.