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Flowery Branch neighborhood watch program cited as nations best
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The phrase “neighborhood watch” has been prominent in the news of late, and not always in a positive way. In the recent Trayvon Martin slaying trial in Florida, the state’s focus in prosecuting acquitted killer George Zimmerman was to portray the 32-year-old as an overzealous neighborhood watchman out to do his own justice.“There’s the same relationship between a real neighborhood watch organization and the Zimmerman situation as there is with a neighborhood watch organization and the movie ‘The Watch,’” said M.L. Loudermilk, who founded a neighborhood watch in his Flowery Branch community. He was referring to a comedy about four neighborhood watchmen who uncover an alien plot threatening earth.