Singapore's High Tech Version Of Neighborhood Watch

Singapore has taken the increase in crime seriously. They now have a text messaging program to notify your phone if you are in the area of a recent crime. This is pitched towards young people who are into this sort of communication. When the alert is sounded the theory is that the young people would then alert their friends and neighbors. First there was the telephone. Now there is the tell-a-kid. It might work.

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