Nextdoor: Pause Police Partnerships

Tell Nextdoor to press pause on partnerships with the police until they take steps to curb racism.

Tell Nextdoor: Press pause on relationships with police departments.

People have been raising the alarm for years now about racism on Nextdoor. At the same time, Nextdoor has been courting police departments by trying to entice them into using the platform to “geo-target messages to specific neighborhoods.” The details of these partnerships are largely hidden from public view, leaving Nextdoor unaccountable for the potential negative outcomes for communities disproportionately targeted by police.

That’s why we’re calling on Nextdoor to pause their relationships with police departments until they provide more information about the nature of these partnerships and evidence that they have considered the impact and potential harms of these partnerships on communities they serve.

While Nextdoor has made commitments to curb racism on their platform, they have remained vague about the details of what they will do and how they will measure their progress. Nextdoor’s latest steps to remove the “Forward to Police” feature of their platform shows a recognition that they need to slow down the “porch-to-police pipeline” enabled by platforms like Amazon Ring and Nextdoor but without meaningful transparency it will be impossible for the public to judge these efforts. Nextdoor has a large, active user base and the steps it takes now can have a huge impact on how we think community networks should operate.

We are calling on Nextdoor to immediately pause their relationships with police departments until they:

  • Release a transparency report to publicly disclose the nature of the relationship between Nextdoor and police departments in all countries where Nextdoor operates, including the steps that they have taken to identify potential harms of these partnerships; and
  • Commit to bringing in civil rights experts on staff, including on the teams working on the Public Agencies platform, as our partners at Color of Change and the StopHateForProfit campaign have called for previously from Facebook.

If Nextdoor is serious about their commitment to building a platform where “everyone belongs,” they must show evidence of real change and accountability.

Pause Police Partnerships

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Tell Nextdoor to press pause on partnerships with the police until they take steps to curb racism.

Tell Nextdoor: Press pause on relationships with police departments.

People have been raising the alarm for years now about racism on Nextdoor. At the same time, Nextdoor has been courting police departments by trying to entice them into using the platform to “geo-target messages to specific neighborhoods.” The details of these partnerships are largely hidden from public view, leaving Nextdoor unaccountable for the potential negative outcomes for communities disproportionately targeted by police.

That’s why we’re calling on Nextdoor to pause their relationships with police departments until they provide more information about the nature of these partnerships and evidence that they have considered the impact and potential harms of these partnerships on communities they serve.

While Nextdoor has made commitments to curb racism on their platform, they have remained vague about the details of what they will do and how they will measure their progress. Nextdoor’s latest steps to remove the “Forward to Police” feature of their platform shows a recognition that they need to slow down the “porch-to-police pipeline” enabled by platforms like Amazon Ring and Nextdoor but without meaningful transparency it will be impossible for the public to judge these efforts. Nextdoor has a large, active user base and the steps it takes now can have a huge impact on how we think community networks should operate.

We are calling on Nextdoor to immediately pause their relationships with police departments until they:

  • Release a transparency report to publicly disclose the nature of the relationship between Nextdoor and police departments in all countries where Nextdoor operates, including the steps that they have taken to identify potential harms of these partnerships; and
  • Commit to bringing in civil rights experts on staff, including on the teams working on the Public Agencies platform, as our partners at Color of Change and the StopHateForProfit campaign have called for previously from Facebook.

If Nextdoor is serious about their commitment to building a platform where “everyone belongs,” they must show evidence of real change and accountability.