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In order for a neighborhood watch to be implemented, there are barriers that must be overcome. To start, the utility of the watch must be realized by the community for the innovation to commence. While the purpose is apparent, the flow of adoption for the watch is instrumental in determining the growth of users. The Isla Vista community, being comprised mainly of students, has knowledge and accessibility of technological devices, specifically of apps and smartphones. Since the neighborhood watch will be hosted on a digital platform, the level of accessibility and learning curve for the diffusion of innovation is not steep. The technology is already widely used in the target community. However, as with any app or product, the neighborhood watch must be advertised to gain members and potential moderators. Adopters would likely use the app upon hearing about it from other users, but it takes the network strength of the innovators then early adopters to give the platform an initial boost in publicity and observability. Beyond marketing from innovators, the platform can grow exponentially once users spread it through word-of-mouth or social media. Community institutions where public information is widely dispersed, such as local businesses with bulletin boards or online through program listservs, can assist as they are generally perceived as trustworthy and widely used by the community. Once the primary group of users solidifies a foundation for app activity, they must actively continue to participate in the platform in order to create change. The neighborhood watch hosts a platform for community safety, but does not solve the problem directly. The problems and solutions are determined by the target community itself. Furthermore, once the amount of posts gains traction, there must be a system for quality assurance. Because the platform is public, there are barriers of trolls, fake threats, and other miscellaneous details that can cause harm on a big scale. For example, a prank about a bomb threat can largely disrupt communications if actions are taken from the digital world to the real one. This can be addressed at several different points in the pipeline: from platform sign-up, to posting, to post-posting. Dedicated members of the neighborhood watch community can volunteer to be moderators on the platform. First, there can be a verification process when members sign up for an account. Second, there can be a filter for moderators to review posts before they become live. Lastly, posts can automatically become live, and a combination of a moderator and a digital filter can catch faulty posts afterwards. Along with this barrier comes a subproblem in which 24-hour moderators must be available because of the urgent nature of some neighborhood watch matters. Comprehensively, the barriers to the neighborhood watch would be from its initial adoption to the moderation of its activity after adoption. If any aspect is mishandled, the platform cannot start to be implemented, and the solutions that the watch is aiming to provide through community cooperation are in jeopardy due to the sensitive nature of the problems.