Nextdoor, the online local networking platform for neighbors, announced it is ending its "Forward to Police" feature after it has long been criticized for facilitating racial profiling.
The feature was introduced in 2016 to allow users to directly share their posts with local police. It was one of several crime-monitoring tools on the site that have raised concerns about the ease with which users can trigger a police response based on unexamined suspicions as described by outlets like Bloomberg's CityLab and The Atlantic.
