<story><title>How Nextdoor courts police and public officials</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/05/nextdoor-local-partnerships-police-government-privacy-app/611827/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>Nextdoor seems to be one of those sites that divide people, especially here. I&amp;#x27;m more or less on the fence with this one. It seems decent enough in my neighborhood. Just this week it was the only place I could look to find out what exploded in the middle of the night (It was a transformer). The posts and comments tend to be pretty decent, usually. We seem to be avoiding the things that seem to be a problem in other areas, at least so far. Like the article says &amp;quot;Nextdoor has also been a hotbed of racial profiling and tattling.&amp;quot; and I&amp;#x27;ve not seen much of that here.&lt;p&gt;If anything this article says &amp;quot;Nextdoor is doing the same thing as every other company&amp;quot;, which doesn&amp;#x27;t make me less likely to use the site from time to time.&lt;p&gt;I do agree with it though... “You want a police officer who has the best interests of their specific community at heart. You don’t want a police officer who’s brand loyal.”</text></comment>
<story><title>How Nextdoor courts police and public officials</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/05/nextdoor-local-partnerships-police-government-privacy-app/611827/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zadkey</author><text>I kept seeing a lot posts on Nextdoor from people who don&amp;#x27;t realize they are racist.&lt;p&gt;An example post on was where someone was complaining about a strange black man walking through their neighborhood.&lt;p&gt;Of course when you read the post carefully you would then come to realize, that this man was walking down the sidewalk, during the day, not bothering or talking to anyone, just minding his own business.&lt;p&gt;The reality is there was nothing particularly strange about this black man. Nothing in her description explains what he did that made him strange. She likely just finds it strange that a black man is walking through their neighborhood.&lt;p&gt;The other thing is these kinds of posts would always be followed up with someone along the lines of &amp;quot;keep an eye out for him&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t let him near your kids&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;call the police if you see him again&amp;quot; or that kind of fear-mongering nonsense.&lt;p&gt;I was honestly downright surprised how racist some of these people are.</text></comment>