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Re:WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push n... by synicalx on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:19AM (#31819821)
My Nextdoor devolved into multiple houses on my street setting up a shared Nest/Google account and rigging up a dozen or so cameras to watch their entire stretch of the street 24/7. All this because someone thought their car was vandalised (turns out it was vandalised in the parking lot of a mall ~10km away).

For context we live in a somewhat isolated, well off suburb, that according to police data has had a grant total of 63 crimes committed in it during the last 12 months, 41 of which were just people vandalising the same abandoned building.

Re:WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push n... by pyuser583 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:48PM (#31973312)
The phrase “overpolicing” used to refer to wealthy, low crime suburbs that spent insane amounts of money on police.

There was a study on this, and California is one of the worst offenders. There a rich hamlets with not crimes to speak of that hire retired FBI agents and Navy Seals to issue parking tickets.

This is a great example: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1