Crime deterrent system

Claim 1

A crime deterrent system for monitoring passive pursuit of a subject randomly movable within an area which comprises: means within the area for providing preliminary information to a central control station relative to the moving subject, its location and its direction of movement; a plurality of radio frequency receivers, each of which is operable by a person randomly located within the area and is tunable to at least one of any available AM, FM and TV frequency for receiving an alerting signal from the central control station upon receipt of the preliminary information and descriptive information relative to the subject from the central control station when tuned to a first selected FM audio frequency; radio transmitting means associated with each radio frequency receiver and operable by the person, the radio transmitting means being tunable to only a second selected FM audio frequency for transmitting corrective information to the central control station, upon sighting the subject, for relating any change in location and direction of movement of the subject that is different from the descriptive information first received by the central control station; and radio transceiver means associated with the central control station for receiving the preliminary information, the descriptive information and the corrective information from at least one person via the providing means, the radio frequency receivers and the radio transmitting means and for transmitting the alerting signal, upon receipt of the preliminary information, via at least one of the available AM, FM and TV frequencies and the first-received descriptive information followed by the corrective information via the first selected FM audio frequency, thereby monitoring for passive pursuit the exact location and direction of movement of the subject.