Tyler Residents Unite in the Fight Against Crime

TYLER – Around 100 residential and commercial block parties will be held in Tyler on Tuesday. It’s part of the annual Texans Against Crimes event, previously known as National Night Out. It’s designed to unite neighbors and communities to encourage neighborhood communication, community involvement and crime prevention to create safer neighborhoods. And one way is to better know your neighbors. Tyler police detective Andy Erbaugh says if you don’t know the person who lives next to you, you don’t know the hours they work, or the cars they drive of if there is a car parked there that should not be there. When you know them, you know when someone is sick or injured or not at home or on vacation. Erbaugh says all of this goes to help surpress crime.