Just recently, my wife and I got involved in a neighborhood watch within our community due to adolescents vandalizing our local cemetery by knocking over gravestones. The local police do not have enough manpower to eliminate this problem so we have taken it upon ourselves to create change. Each neighbor has a certain night and time that they must canvas the cemetery looking for the vandals. We have notified the police of our intentions and they support us as long as we do not take the law into our own hands, so to speak.

Could someone explain to me how getting involved in a neighborhood watch such as this within my community empowers neighbors or my community as well as myself in this story.