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A offer Cellular Citizens, Crime Watch brew has caused a sharp reduction in major crimes in many Dade shire Fla., neighborhoods, according to a lately published Florida International University (FIU) evaluation. The use of cellular phone from local crime watch groups t to dramatic overall decreases in burglaries, robberies and thefts in 11 neighborhoods during the nine-month investigation period.

"The Dade shire Neighborhood Cellular Watch Project is of value to communities experiencing an increasing or an existing crime problem" says Mark Rosenberg, dean of FIU's corporation of Urban and Public Affairs, which managemented the study.

FIU's researchers fix that within the combined 11 neighborhoods.

* Burglaries decreased 33 percent from 341 to 229;

* Robberies decreased 24 percent from 42 to 31; and

* Thefts decreased 9 percent from 77 to 70

Other positive results of the project that were listed included.

* presents believed that crime had decreased in