Well-trained neighborhood watch groups can be great assets to local law enforcement, Floss said.
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It was on that walk back that he encountered George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer.
The neighborhood watch captain saw Mr. Martin, thought he looked suspicious and called 911.
Merely because he was a neighborhood watch captain does not attach law enforcement status to him.
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Police can also work with residents who want to start their own neighborhood watch group through Nextdoor.
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Also released were copies of the e-mails between Zimmerman and Lee before the shooting regarding the neighborhood watch program.
He noted that there had been some burglaries in the area, prompting him to start a neighborhood watch program.
But Martin's life ended on February 26 in Sanford, Florida, during an encounter with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
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George Zimmerman, 28, a neighborhood watch volunteer, fatally shot Martin on February 26.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, says he shot Martin in self-defense February 26.
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The task force includes a retired judge, attorneys experienced in both prosecution and defense and members of neighborhood watch programs.
The neighborhood watch volunteer said the February 26 shooting was in self-defense.
She pointed to the case of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida who fatally shot an unarmed 17-year-old following an altercation.
He was a neighborhood watch volunteer when he called 911 reporting "a suspicious person" in the neighborhood, who turned out to be 17-year-old Martin.
Important in a very different way are the Neighborhood Watch Units.
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But I'll bet you money, if he didn't have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn't have responded in that violent and aggressive way.
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Originally titled Neighborhood Watch, it got a modified title after the February shooting of Trayvon Martin by Florida resident George Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watch officer.
Frustrated and feeling a need to do something about it, he joined a neighborhood watch group and offered to map crimes that were happening in the area.
The defense is likely to argue that even if Zimmerman made a misjudgment or mistake, as a neighborhood watch volunteer, he had none of these bad motives.
Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who has said he killed 17-year-old Martin in self-defense, was not arrested after being questioned by police the night of the shooting.
"Most cities are having a tough time, " said Esserman, who added that his department is dedicated to community policing and has a strong partnership with neighborhood watch groups.
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In February 2012, Martin, 17, was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who is awaiting trial on a second-degree murder charge in Martin's death.
He said he has plans to help the department that has been under the microscope since the February 26 killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
Many of the towns have neighborhood watch groups and organize major events like National Night Out, an annual crime and drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, has acknowledged shooting Martin.
The 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer has said he killed Martin in self-defense, saying the teen punched him and slammed his head into a sidewalk before the shooting, according to family members and police.
The 17-year-old unarmed black teenager, who had been wearing a hooded sweatshirt, was killed by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman after the two got into a confrontation in a gated community in Sanford, Fla.
Peskin, who estimates that there are about 20, 000 neighborhood watch groups nationwide, said there has been an increase in requests for information on starting groups from all over the country including urban, suburban and rural communities.
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And the investigator expresses doubt that Zimmerman, who had lived in the neighborhood for three years and described himself as head of the neighborhood watch, did not know the names of the three streets in the subdivision.
Rodriguez's reference to standing his ground is similar to the claim made by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who is citing Florida's Stand Your Ground law in his defense in the fatal February shooting of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin.
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