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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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