{"id":50255,"date":"2018-11-30T10:50:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=50255"},"modified":"2018-11-30T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:50:31","slug":"oxford-mississippi-police-department-promoting-crime-prevention-this-holiday-season-through-nextdoor-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-police-department-promoting-crime-prevention-this-holiday-season-through-nextdoor-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Police Department Promoting Crime Prevention this Holiday Season through Nextdoor.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> is using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Nextdoor.com\"><strong>Nextdoor.com<\/strong><\/a> to promote safe neighborhoods\u00a0through crime prevention.\u00a0Nextdoor is a free, private social network that allows members to\u00a0communicate with verified residents within their own communities and neighborhoods. The\u00a0Oxford Police Department intends to leverage the Nextdoor platform this holiday season as\u00a0a tool for forming new and improved connections within the community that it serves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since\u00a0members are organized by geographical location, Nextdoor has become a kind of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Neighborhood Watch for the 21st Century. Nextdoor provides an opportunity for neighbors\u00a0to share ideas, collaborate, and discuss issues that are important to them, including public\u00a0safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Already, 20 neighborhoods, and over 1,200 residents of the City of Oxford, have launched\u00a0Nextdoor accounts. Neighborhoods establish and self-manage their own Nextdoor\u00a0accounts and the police department will not be able to access residents\u2019 accounts, contact\u00a0information, or content. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, membership to this social network\u00a0requires verification of the individual\u2019s home address, ensuring that your Nextdoor\u00a0neighbors are your real neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford residents are encouraged to join by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextdoor.com\">www.nextdoor.com<\/a> to create a free\u00a0account, or to learn more. The Nextdoor app is available for free download, giving you\u00a0instant 24\/7 access to community and public safety information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To ensure information reaches members of the Oxford Police Department, citizens are\u00a0urged to select the Crime &amp; Safety category when sending messages to their individual\u00a0neighborhoods. The OPD Detective Unit will be monitoring Nextdoor for any tips that could\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">help you and your neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe want the citizens and students to know that this holiday season we are cracking down\u00a0on package thefts and vehicle or homes burglaries that are vacant for extended periods.\u00a0We want to partner with the people of Oxford to make this holiday season joyful and Grinch\u00a0free,\u201d said Chief <strong>Joey East<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Police Department is using Nextdoor.com to promote safe neighborhoods\u00a0through crime prevention.\u00a0Nextdoor is a free, private social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":50256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[1097,13621,13622,2092],"class_list":["post-50255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-joey-east","tag-nextdoor","tag-nextdoor-com","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-30-Nextdoor.jpg?fit=2048%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}