City Council Removes Neighborhood Watch Signs for Being Too Racist

The city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, took down its Neighborhood Watch signs under the theory that the displays are racist.

Senior elected officials held a ceremony on April 21 to remove the final sign, according to a report fromMLive.

“It’s great to see the last of these relics of the past come down,” City Council Member Jen Eyer, a Democrat, commented at the event.

“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 added, per a report fromBlaze Media.

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Members of the City Council passed a resolution on Dec. 15 ordering the removal of more than 600 Neighborhood Watch signs across Ann Arbor.

The resolution claimed that “Neighborhood Watch programs emerged in the 1970s during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change.”

It said that the programs were “often rooted in assumptions about who did and did not ‘belong’ in a neighborhood, reinforcing race-based hyper-vigilance and suspicion particularly toward black, brown, and other marginalized residents and visitors.”

Neighborhood Watch also purportedly “encouraged informal surveillance practices that disproportionately targeted people of color and contributed to patterns of exclusion under the guise of public safety.”

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