> Before Nextdoor existed, you might see a stranger in your neighborhood and assume he’s someone’s guest or a local workman come to fix something. If you were w

> Before Nextdoor existed, you might see a stranger in your neighborhood and assume he’s someone’s guest or a local workman come to fix something. If you were worried, you would call a neighbor to find out who he is. With Nextdoor, your natural reflex is to take his picture and post it to the platform — and perhaps alert the police in the process that someone suspicious has been seen in your area. > suspicious "I don't know this person, ergo they must be suspicious." WTF, no, stop it. People have a right to be on public property and easements like sidewalks. They don't have a right to loiter, but they have a right to pass through the area. Yes, criminals do it, but so do teenagers having fun, and so do people with more legitimate reasons to be somewhere, and we can't be interrogating all of them all the time, and we (society) don't have the right to be detaining and interrogating people who have not yet committed a crime or conspired to commit a crime, or even people who have -unknown to us- committed a crime for which we have zero evidence, not even probable cause. This sort of paranoia can lead to completely unnecessary encounters with police that can escalate when the person refuses to go along with unreasonable police demands for ID or whatever, then end up being a police abuse victim. Please stop this behavior.