I understand and it makes sense that saying "I saw a black person walking around" is effectively useless and likely racist. The problem I see here is that it's

I understand and it makes sense that saying "I saw a black person walking around" is effectively useless and likely racist. The problem I see here is that it's only applied to race. If the same person made the same report and simply not added race (I'm only going by what I see in the screenshots, no clue whether it's more complex than that) then we'd have a similarly useless post because it offers no quality information either way. I don't understand why they wouldn't ask for the extra 2 out of 4 details for all "vague" reports, only for race. It's good, valuable information. edit: as I think further on it, I probably find more questionable the whole existence of a feature to report "suspicious activity" than Nextdoor singling race out. I mean, were I to go out in a skirt (I'm a hairy dude) would I be reported for whatever suspicious activity means? If a hippie-ish friend of mine with dreadlocks came over, would that be "suspicious"? The more I think on it the more it seems like a means of fueling people's paranoia/racism. I read that they tried to address that with the crime report feature but I still get the feeling that the whole thing is misplaced.