1.   Every day, Astin Jacobo ambles past the shops and houses of Crotona, surveying his Bronx neighborhood like a one-man block watch.

2.   Once, on a block watch, he caught a woman, a crack addict, trying to break into a car across the street.

3.   Residents were organizing into block watches and larger groupings.

4.   The best protection is not dogs, but getting to know your neighbors and establishing block watches, Wallace added.

5.   The meeting was one of the regular gatherings held by People United Fight Back, an umbrella organization for neighborhood block watches.

6.   To combat those kinds of problems, South Ranch created a block watch to monitor the park.