This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, taking down neighborhood watch signs for being racist. How people can elect these out-of-touch politicians is beyond me. But then people are sheep and follow along until they get pushed off the cliff.
Who feels unwelcome in areas with these signs? The people who might want to commit crimes but don’t because they know the threat of being caught by aware neighbors. Touchy-feely stuff over the safety of communities is going the wrong way. This is absolutely unbelievable, and I don’t understand how this is racist. All IMO.
“A Michigan city has spent thousands of taxpayer dollars to remove signs that may make some people feel “unwelcome.”
City crews in Ann Arbor spent man-hours and taxpayer funds removing more than 600 “Neighborhood Watch” signs because liberal leaders claimed they were “expressions of exclusion.” The fact that they were actually excluding criminals seemed lost on the city council and the mayor.
“The Neighborhood Watch program, which emerged in the 1970s during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change, is defunct, and research shows such signage does not reduce crime and can reinforce biased surveillance,” read a post on the city government’s social media account.”