What can we do as a community to keep each other safe?

What can we do as a community to keep each other safe?

Since we are still in a pandemic ... this year is far-from-identical to prior years.
1. The large decrease everywhere in how many people are out-and-about on foot, bicycle, car, bus, and train ... means that in areas for which criminals choose to do their crimes ... the odds of "the eyes of the public" being an inhibition for them to do their crime ... are much lower.
2. College/University communities have had during the pandemic a much-larger decrease in the number of people out-and-about than communities that don't have colleges/universities
3. Presuming the effects of the pandemic will diminish eventually, the speed at which it's effects diminish should roughly correspond to more people being out-and-about in Hyde Park, and the number of these kinds of crimes should revert back towards the numbers of the pre-pandemic times.

What can an individual do to "speed up" this return to the pre-pandemic situation?
4. If you order a lot of things online, you can cut back on that, and shop in-person at the stores of Hyde Park more often than recently.
5. If it is possible to have some "masked, social distance, in person events" with your friends or at neighborhood clubs or groups or such ... each such event that happens "in person" will increase the number of "eyes on the street" out-and-about
6. Perhaps organize some kind of every-so-often events on your block, which include something outside, such as a (masked) picnic or some such.

Very long tem:
6. If you are a volunteer or officer of some agency or the city or some group that does long-term urban-planning for new things in Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and the other surrounding communities ... you can speak up for whatever options appear from the City or elsewhere, the increase the number of "multi-use" new-projects ... i.e., projects that include both a residential and retail/commercial element. This again will mean that an active population will more likely be out and about in and near those areas ... and this kind of development has had lower crime rates than the "old fashioned" 30s / 40s / 50s separation of retail-areas from residential areas.
7. Others can speak with more experience than I can on this: Involve your religious or community club in the social agencies that are trying to make conditions better for the poorest people in our surrounding communities. I just see a statistic for example, that each household in Illinois that has one person, has an average household income of $54,877. In our neighboring communities, I believe that number is about HALF of that number.
8. Try to get our elected Aldermen to interact better with each's community. The 5th and 20th and other nearby Wards, should each replicate what the 4th Ward Alderman has done by setting up the Advisory Councils!

I am 100% sure that there are other ideas worth hearing about that aren't above. What are your ideas?
Yours,
Sid