Why a Scholastic Crime Stoppers Program?
A Scholastic Crime Stoppers program can: eliminate student fear and apathy by providing a confidential avenue for students, teachers and others to work in partnership with authorities, while adding the incentive of a cash reward for relevant information. provide a safer environment for students while they are at school, and save tax dollars by decreasing acts of vandalism to school property. and create a student body that is aware, interested and involved in the well-being of their school and community. How Does Scholastic Crime Stoppers Work? This crime reduction program takes many forms, but all adhere to the basic concept of Crime Stoppers. In some localities, the school administration and Crime Stoppers coordinator choose to simply promote the local Crime Stoppers program in the schools, encouraging students to use the established Crime Stoppers telephone number to report incidents of crime on campus or anywhere in their community. In other communities, a more complex apparatus, in
