What are the positives and negatives of the neighbourhood watch scheme?
the positives should be that any criminal element in the area would hopefully think twice knowing that there are patrols going on around the neighbourhood, and hopefully local crime would fall. the negatives are that local people act like vigilantes and think they can take the law into their own hands, snoop around into peoples private business too much, think they have the right to dictate who should be out and about at whatever times etc, the Wrong type of people become involved in the group. just a few that we found when we had one, oh and local criminals moved on to the next neighbourhood.