MEET Village Defense: a crime stopping, social enterprising force

Have you ever suffered from a car break in?  How about a home invasion?  Ever spied some suspicious folks roaming your streets?  Well, some local entrepreneurs are crafting a solution that puts community policing powers in the hands of even non tech savvy citizens.  Village Defense is a local social enterprise- an organization using business solutions to solve a troubling social issue.  We sat down with the entire team to find out where this idea came from and what keeps them going through the long days in Atlanta’s social enterprise startup community. Tell us a little about your project: We make it very easy for neighbors to communicate with each other. We’ve noticed a major disconnect in information flow in communities from neighbor-to-neighbor, so we developed a system that allows for real-time communication amongst entire neighborhoods. When a crime takes place, it is common that no one in the neighborhood knows about it, and criminals take advantage of this ignorance. They can enter and exit at will because they...