Ann Arbor’s last ‘Neighborhood Crime Watch’ sign ceremonially taken down

[Votto]

ANN ARBOR, MI — The last “Neighborhood Crime Watch” sign in Ann Arbor is now removed.



City officials gathered on Princeton Avenue on Tuesday, April 21, for the ceremonial removal of the final sign after weeks of work to remove hundreds of similar signs.

Council Member Jen Eyer, D-4th Ward.



Eyer joined Mayor Christopher Taylor and Council Member Cynthia Harrison, D-1st Ward, in lifting it out of the ground to be hauled away and recycled.



Despite neighborhood watch programs being defunct, more than 600 such signs remained throughout the city before the effort to get rid of them, officials said.

“Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion,” Taylor said, calling their removal a small but important step.

Council voted in January to pull $18,000 from the city’s cash reserves for the effort, calling the signs outdated relics from when neighborhood watch programs emerged in the 1970s during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change.



Research shows they don’t reduce crime and often reinforce racism, council members said.



“This idea actually was brought to me from a constituent who was doing a lot of running around the city and noticed these neighborhood watch signs ... and noticed they weren’t connected to any program that’s existing in the community,” Eyer said.



“It really hearkens back to a time when public safety was more about surveillance and exclusion of people from communities and trying to look out for anyone who looked different,” she said. “And that’s just not how we do things in Ann Arbor.”

What is wrong with the Left?

Seriously?

 

[jknowgood]

More liberal lunacy.

 

[Polishprince]

Considerate move on the part of the city of Ann Arbor, actually. Lets the law abiding citizens know that the liberal city fathers don't want to get calls about ne'er-do-wells from socially friendly groups casing out joints, and if you snitch on them, you will be persecuted.

 

[Manonthestreet]

If the program ended there really is no need of the signs. Most people can sniff out a bad area fairly quick.

 

[MarathonMike]

“Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion,” Taylor said, calling their removal a small but important step.

WUT??? So Democrats think it's a bad thing to exclude criminals from a neighborhood and for neighbors to look out for each other?? How can any law-abiding American support Democrats?
I totally understand why criminals and illegal immigrants support Democrats.

 

[Votto]

WUT??? So Democrats think it's a bad thing to exclude criminals from a neighborhood and for neighbors to look out for each other?? How can any law-abiding American support Democrats?
I totally understand why criminals and illegal immigrants support Democrats.

My guess is this sort of reasoning that the Left goes through.

1. There are more blacks in jail than whites on average

2. White people can't be more law abiding, because that is racist

3. To fight the systemic law and order of the system, the only thing we can do is to refuse to aiding them catching criminals and to defund the police.

 

[Hellokitty]

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ANN ARBOR, MI — The last “Neighborhood Crime Watch” sign in Ann Arbor is now removed.



City officials gathered on Princeton Avenue on Tuesday, April 21, for the ceremonial removal of the final sign after weeks of work to remove hundreds of similar signs.

Council Member Jen Eyer, D-4th Ward.



Eyer joined Mayor Christopher Taylor and Council Member Cynthia Harrison, D-1st Ward, in lifting it out of the ground to be hauled away and recycled.



Despite neighborhood watch programs being defunct, more than 600 such signs remained throughout the city before the effort to get rid of them, officials said.

“Neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion,” Taylor said, calling their removal a small but important step.

Council voted in January to pull $18,000 from the city’s cash reserves for the effort, calling the signs outdated relics from when neighborhood watch programs emerged in the 1970s during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change.



Research shows they don’t reduce crime and often reinforce racism, council members said.



“This idea actually was brought to me from a constituent who was doing a lot of running around the city and noticed these neighborhood watch signs ... and noticed they weren’t connected to any program that’s existing in the community,” Eyer said.



“It really hearkens back to a time when public safety was more about surveillance and exclusion of people from communities and trying to look out for anyone who looked different,” she said. “And that’s just not how we do things in Ann Arbor.”

What is wrong with the Left?

Seriously?

Wait is this real or satire...

 

[Votto]

Wait is this real or satire...

Yes!

Sometimes it is both, although I did do a separate bit in the satire forum as I could simply not resist.

 

[Votto]