What’s your town’s
most dangerous neighborhood?

It’s something so vile it’s difficult to think about, but it must be discussed in order to prevent it. You see people caught and arrested during television news shows, and hear about Oprah’s crusade to catch the criminals and change laws to give them tougher sentences. The topic, of course, is child sexual predators.

“The Internet is the most dangerous neighborhood in Evansville,” Kelley Coures, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Evansville, Indiana, says in the Evansville Courier and Press. Now, with the help of the Vanderburgh County sheriff, his club is doing something about it.

The Kiwanians aim to create a “virtual neighborhood watch,” which educates parents, who can be far less computer-savvy than their children, about potential dangers, including social networking sites and cell phones that are Internet ready.

Working with the sheriff’s office, the Kiwanis club printed 5,000 copies of the brochure.

When announcing the brochure in the Evansville Courier and Press, the sheriff’s department shared what is believed to be the most important tip to protecting children: Do not allow children to have computers in their rooms; keep them in a common room.