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Your State - Crime Statistics
Disaster Center Crime Rates in Maryland from 1960 to 1997 www.disastercenter.com/crime/mdcrime.htm
Maryland Community Crime Prevention Institute Patricia Sill, Administrator 3085 Hernwood Road Woodstock, MD 21163-1099 Phone: 800-303-8802 Fax: 410-465-3764 URL: www.dpscs.state.md.us/pct/ccpi	The Institute serves as a resource center for crime prevention information in Maryland. Reference materials and audio-visuals are available for loan upon request. Ask for a copy of the MCCPI Resource Catalog which describes many of the resources available. FREE crime prevention brochures are also available in limited quantities. A few of the most popular brochures are now online:
National Criminal Justice Reference Service PO Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 URL: www.ncjrs.org	A service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, this office serves as a clearinghouse on crime and crime prevention information. Their web site includes statistics, crime prevention documents, juvenile justice information and information on drugs and crime.
Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse Phone: 800-732-3277 National Institute of Justice Clearinghouse Phone: 800-851-3420 Office of Victims of Crime Phone: 800-627-6872 OJJDP Phone: 800-638-8736
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Community Crime Prevention Programs
Hot Fax Dan Waring, Lieutenant Montgomery County Department of Police, Bethesda District Station 7359 Wisconsin Avenue Bethseda, MD 20814 Phone: 301-652-9200 Fax: 301-657-0123	A local citizen's advisory board of the Montgomery County Police Department raised concern about the lack of communication between the department and the advisory board. Members indicated that they often had to rely on newspaper accounts of incidences never discussed by the police. In response to the concern, the department developed the "Hot Fax." Designed to keep local businesses and citizen groups current with police department news, the Hot Fax program notifies citizens of confirmed crimes, crime trends and patterns and wanted and missing persons. A Hot Fax is initially sent to 6 locations in the police disctrict. From those locations the fax is forwarded to approximately 200 businesses and citizens groups.
Hate Crime Prevention Programs
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 4805 Mount Hope Drive Baltimore, MD 21215 Phone: 410-358-8900 Fax: 410-764-7357 URL: www.naacp.org	The NAACP was formed in 1909 in NYC. The principal objective of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of minority group citizens among the citizens of the United States.
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Check with your local police department for more crime prevention resources in your area.