BLOOMINGTON, IN – Law enforcement has deployed a commonly used mobile app to monitor locals who are statistically prone to violence.
The Bloomington Police Department is now using the popular Nextdoor app to locate and surveil community members with ample idle time that allows for obsessive scrutiny of neighborhood activity.
The app gives users the ability to track street and sidewalk traffic and author posts about suspicious travel patterns of unfamiliar individuals that may be up to no good.
“The Nextdoor app has placed modern surveillance technology into untrained hands,” said BPD Captain Juan Hernandez. “Now retirees or stay at home adults can spend all day stewing up fear and anxiety amongst their neighbors.”
Recent studies have shown that frequent use of the app to stoke worry and unease has led to vigilanteism. Neighbors often become so concerned with alleged nefarious activity that they take matters into their own hands and harm innocent passers by or utility workers.
“It has quickly become a huge problem,” said City Public Safety Board Chair Aliya Sadler. “People bored out of their minds have found a new way to garner attention and people are getting seriously injured.”
Nextdoor recently added a feature that allows users to upload pictures and videos straight from their doorbell and security cameras. This has led to false identifications of individuals accused of trespass or potential theft.
BPD is focused on early detection of excessive idleness that will ideally result in the prevention of future Nextdoor app related assaults.
Limestone Ledger 
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