The National Crime Prevention Council is an American educational nonprofit organization in Washington, DC whose mission

Strategic planning

Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. In order to determine the direction of the organization, it is necessary to understand its current position and the possible avenues...

 is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

 and violence

Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...

 and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.

The NCPC is perhaps best known for its character McGruff the Crime Dog

McGruff the Crime Dog

McGruff the Crime Dog is an anthropomorphic cartoon bloodhound created by Saatchi & Saatchi through the Ad Council for the National Crime Prevention Council for use by American police in building crime awareness among children. He debuted in July 1980. The character was created by John Young. The...

, created to educate children about crime prevention.