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Crime Stoppers is a privately funded, non-profit organization
with a volunteer board of trustees. Although it enjoys the support of the sheriff
and other law enforcement officers, it receives no state, city or local funding. To
remain a viable tool, Crime Stoppers must maintatin a...
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The use of information, whether from concerned citizens or paid informants, has played
a vital role in the success of police work since the earliest times.
In studies prepared by criminal authorities, the F.B.I., and other law enforcement
agencies, citzen information is credited with assisting in the solution of the vast
majority of all the major crime that is solved in the United States.
In 1976, a program was created in Alburquerque, New Mexico, which gave the vital
police/citzen relationship a completely new twist. The program is called
Crime Stoppers, and now it is recognized as one of the nation's
most cost effective anti-crime efforts.
In order to understand how Crime Stoppers works and why it has been such a success,
one must understand the condtions under which it was created.
Albuquerque, a southwestern city of over 400,000 residents, had the dubious distinction
of recording one of the nation's highest per capita crime rates in the mid 1970's.
The public expressed a lack of confidence in the police department's ability to curtail
the surge in crime, which had spiraled steadily since the mid 1960's.
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