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Auto Theft
•  Auto Theft: Preventing the Crime
•  Carjackers Beware
•  Hot Cars Cold Facts: Vehicle Theft Prevention

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Burglary
•  Bright Ideas for Home Security
•  Crime in the Home
•  Home Security
•  Home Security: A Do It Yourself Guide
•  Home Security Checklist
•  Home Security: Invest in it Now
•  Secure Your Apartment: A Guide to Preventing Burglaries
•  Secure Your Home: A Guide to Preventing Burglaries

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Community Policing
•  Are We Delivering on the Promises of Community Policing?
•  COPPS: Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving

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Conflict Resolution/Diversity
•  Dealing With Diversity: Perceptions Vs. Reality
•  Getting Along
•  Let's Work It Out - Donnie Dinosaur
•  Teaching Tolerance to Teens
•  Tolerance 101

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Drugs & Alcohol
•  Alcohol and Alcoholism
•  Alcohol is Bad News - Donnie Dinosaur
•  Amphetamines: Danger in the Fast Lane
•  Barbiturates: Sleeping Potion or Intoxicant?
•  Cocaine and Crack: Formula for Failure
•  Crackdown II
•  The Dangers of Adults Supplying Alcohol to Minors
•  D.A.R.E. America- Instructor Demonstration Video
•  Daren Costume
•  Dare to be Different: Resisting Drug-Related Peer Pressure
•  Debunking the Myths About Marijuana
•  Don Parker presents The Illusion of Drugs - Substance Abuse in the Workplace
•  Drinking It In: Mixing Alcohol Images and Kids
•  Drug Education
•  Drug Free Zones
•  Drugs and Youth: The Challenge
•  Drugs are No Good (M.A.D. Youth Video 1993)
•  Drunk Driving: A Collision Course
•  Ecstasy: When the Party's Over
•  Every Fifteen Minutes: Freedom High School
•  Heroin: What's the Real Dope?
•  Inhalants and Human Physiology
•  Inhalants: The Tricky Drugs
•  Marketing Booze to Teens
•  Nicotine: An Old-Fashioned Addiction
•  Prescription Narcotics: The Addictive Painkillers
•  Rushing, Crashing, Dying: The Meth Epidemic
•  Speak Up, Speak Out: Learning to Say No
•  The Steroid Trap: Turning Winners Into Losers
•  Talking With Your Kids About Drugs
•  Teenage Depression and Suicide
•  You Drink, You Drive, You're Stupid

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Fraud
•  Avoiding Financial Scams
•  Calling For Your Dollars
•  The Charity Con
•  Fraud and Other Con Games
•  Fraud Fighters
•  Get the Facts, Before a Bad Loan Gets You
•  It's a Wonderful Donation
•  It's Your Right: Tips for Home Repair Fraud
•  Listen Up! Wise Up! Hang Up!
•  Merchant Fraud Awareness: Counterfeit Cards
•  No Profit, No Return
•  Safe and Secure in an Electronic World
•  Telemarketing Fraud
•  Telemarketing Fraud: Don't Let It Happen To You
•  Telephone Fraud

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General Crime Prevention
•  Are You Safe? A National Test on Crime Prevention
•  Bicycle Safety: Two-Wheeler
•  Child Abuse: How to See It, How to Stop It
•  Country Crime: What Communities Can Do
•  Country Crime: What You Can Do
•  Crime Check: Retail Employees
•  Crime in the Streets
•  Crime Prevention: Then and Now
•  Crime Prevention: What and Why?
•  Crossing the Line: The Truth About Gangs
•  Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism
•  Dial 911 in an Emergency
•  Invest in Youth for a Safer Future
•  Latchkey Children: Young Children at Home Alone
•  The Power of Prevention
•  Preventing Gangs: Signs, Strategies, Solutions
•  Prison Dialogues: A Message to Our Youth
•  Rural Crime: They're Stealin' the Farm
•  Smarter Teens, Safer Communities
•  Taking the Offensive to Prevent Crime: Texas City Action Plan
•  Teenage Shoplifting
•  Terrorism Awareness and Prevention
•  This is How We Do It: Youth in Action
•  Uniting Youth and Adults in Crime Prevention
•  Volunteers in Police Service: Educational Video Series
•  Volunteers in Police Service (Officer Version)
•  Volunteers in Police Service (Volunteer Version)
•  What Works: Research and the Police
•  Why Can't We Talk? When Lives Are at Stake

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Identity Theft
•  Identity Crisis
•  Identity Theft: How to Protect Your Credit, Your Money, and Your Good Name
•  Identity Theft: Protect Yourself
•  Identity Theft: The Game of the Name
•  Losing Your Identity
•  Stop Identity Theft Now

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Internet Safety
•  Caught in the Net
•  Children and the Internet: Street Smarts for the Information Super-Highway
•  A Family Guide to Using the Internet
•  Internet Safety for Kids
•  Internet Safety for Parents
•  Internet Safety for Your Child
•  Love Chronicles: Love on the Internet
•  Online Safety for Children: A Primer for Parents and Teachers

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McGruff
•  Crime Prevention: It's Elementary
•  McGruff and Drug-Free Kids
•  McGruff Costume
•  McGruff on Halloween
•  McGruff on Personal Property
•  McGruff on Vandalism
•  McGruff's Drug Alert
•  McGruff's Gang Alert
•  McGruff's Guide to Personal Safety
•  McGruff's Self-Care Alert

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Missing Children
•  Child Abduction, Awareness & Self Defense (part 1)
•  Child Abduction, Awareness & Self Defense (part 2)
•  Family Protection Network
•  High-Risk Abductions of Children: Media and Law Enforcement Working Together
•  Missing and Exploited Children: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
•  Safety N.E.T. Kids: No Easy Targets
•  Smart About Strangers

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Neighborhood Watch
•  Becoming Neighbors Again
•  Building the Future Block by Block
•  Joining Forces: Neighborhood Watch
•  Neighborhood Safety
•  Neighborhood Safety: A Parent's Guide
•  Safer Communities, Brighter Futures
•  Vandalism
•  Vandalism: The Mark of Immaturity

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Personal Safety & Security
•  Acquaintance Rape, Drugs and You
•  Crime Check: Personal Security
•  Date Rape Drugs: An Alert
•  Domestic Violence Awareness
•  Domestic Violence: The Workplace Responds
•  Girls Beware (3rd edition)
•  How to be "Streetwise" - and Safe
•  Rape: Not Always a Stranger
•  Rape Prevention
•  Refusal Skills for Healthy Living
•  Self-Protection: It's a Matter of Personal Awareness
•  Sexual Assault Awareness
•  Stalked? What to Do
•  Stalkers: Deadly Obsession
•  Street Crime Prevention
•  Teenage Sexual Harassment

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School Safety
•  Frontline: Killer at Thurston High
•  In the Know: Bullying

•  In the Know: School Violence

•  Keeping Your Child Safe at Home and in School
•  Safe Schools: A Guide for Action

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Senior Citizen Safety
•  Con Games: Crime and the Elderly
•  Safer Seniors
•  Seniors and Law Enforcement Together
•  Seniors: Victims or Partners in Community Solutions?
•  Two Friends: The Gatekeeper Program

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Spanish
•  Dare to be Different: Resisting Drug-Related Peer Pressure
•  Drugs and Youth: The Challenge
•  The Great 911 Adventure
•  Reconozca El Fraude (Know Fraud)

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Weapons
•  Guns: A Frightening Expose on Firearms in America
•  Handgun Safety
•  Weapons and You

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