Except when it comes to politics and they vote for the people who'll take money out of your pocket instead of the Dems who are trying to put it in your pocket!!! 🤦‍♂🤦‍♀

That's the America I grew up in.

It's always been this way, though. 🤦🏾‍♂️😂😂

@@margaretnicol3423 keep in mind, they do it believing the opposite. "Tax and spend democrats" are all one word in their heads. Democrats do a crappy job of explaining money to the public, Republicans don't even try.

@@NWPaul72 True although even Grump said that the Dems were better with money. They miss the ''you'' from that phrase - tax you to spend on you instead of corporations!

As a security guard, if I'm suspicious of someone, I may totally chat them up in a friendly, polite manner, like I don't suspect a thing. What I'm doing is getting a really good look at them so I can provide a really good description.😁

@@grmpEqweer Yep. And any potential trouble maker knows that. Deterrence ;) It also gives you a better sense of all the legit reasons someone might be acting a bit suspicious. Probably not a surprise to you, but for a lot of folks it is sort of a realization to find out that most other people acting a bit sus aren't actually up to no good.

Absolutely!

@@travcollier Not necessarily. Some criminals are really dumb enough to think they've got one over on you because you're being nice to them. BTDT. Street criminals aren't generally the sharpest tacks in the box. (Otherwise they'd be white collar criminals, where rewards are higher and chances of prison are lower.)

@@grmpEqweer lol, Fair point

Yep I remember that as well. It's bad enough police target people for the color of their skin, let's get everybody to do it. Every time I get junk mail from Nextdoor it goes in the trash. No, I will not join the neighborhood gestapo

I will never forget waking up that day and seeing the crashes on TV. It felt kind of unreal in a way. Even in that state of shock, my first thoughts were how this would push the entire country even farther to the right because of the hysteria it would cause. And especially after the supreme court forced us to accept bush as president (we've had coups in the U.S. before, just never so blatant and violent as the 6th), I knew right then our already right-wing government was going to start at least one war over it.

Actually, I'm okay with that, because when I respond I can usually make everybody feel better about the situation. Of course, 99% of the time when I respond to benign situations, there is also a 'response / nothing to report' placed on the log.

Thats the argument that the neighbors all had....the "if you see something suspiscious, call the police, its better to be safe than sorry" Just found out....I think the ACLU is suing my state for illegal searches & seizures. Gotta remember to call them up with the transcript from the court reporter to which the officer admitted to lying in his report. Hopefully it will go smoothly (hahaha, i made a funny)

So did I and I live overseas. That statement had me going "I have a very bad feeling about this."

Yup. Let kids goof off unless they're explicitly attacking each other.

How about exercise video games? It's 2021 you cant take our games away.

Lol. I was one of those skateboarders in my youth. We would always ask the police where we could skateboard that wouldn't bother people. They never had an answer but at least a majority of them were polite. Did have one that would curse at us and got in my face one time threatening to take me in for obstructing the sidewalk.

@@nicholas4514 He would have been just as p1ssed if you were in the street. A$$holes gonna a$$, I guess...

100% of the time it's someone who rarely leaves their house.

I had a similar experience when I moved into a new neighborhood 3 years ago. Once I joined I was so disgusted by the racism, pettiness, and raging ignorance that I deleted it. Decided I didn't want to know who these folks are.

Very noble of you to help your elderly neighbors. I don't know where you live, but in my neighborhood we have mostly white families with some Asian, black, and Hispanic families. Everyone respects each other and gets along.

@@luvcheneywasalegend9168 that's not everyone's hood though.

@@Jay-ho9io True. Though, I think she and I live in the same city.

But the app did awaken you to who you’re living around. I had the same experience but decided to keep the app so as to remind me what kind of people I’m living around. Sadly, most of them are FoxNews consumers and you can see it in their texts on the app. They repeat verbatim what u hear on that so-called news channel.

I was on the bus once, and an old guy got on with a youngster. The old guy was say, "When I was your age, everyone knew everyone on the street, and kept an eye on what was happening. These days, I don't even know my next door neighbours' names... It is great!" 😂

My neighbors and I all wave and smile and talk about each other, but not so much to each other. They're mostly armed to the gills, I let them think I am, too. Country livin'!

👋 Hello!

You must live in the midwest lol

U got it good make up all kinds of outrageous things my hood want 2 know when u have the runs. Lol

and if you're picking up your girlfriend who is providing essential services, and you've been double parked for half an hour... admit it. I spoke to the young man. He told me nothing as to why he was double parked in front of my and my neighbors house. I didn't call the cops. But I was close. Bigotry want involved. A lack of info was.

I hear you. I worked in homes providing services to children with ASD and have done the same thing. Can’t tell you how many times I have had people approach me and even follow me. I often felt scared and explaining myself felt like a violation of the family’s privacy.

I have passed addresses and turned around, but never drove up and down the street multiple times. But I also wouldn't have thought to call the police if someone did.

@@thomthom6268 And he needs to answer your questions _why, exactly?_ Who do you think you are to be interrogating American citizens about their comings and goings? Also, did it occur to you that maybe he thought "Wow, this guy questioning me about my presence seems oddly confrontational and pushy. This is kind of freaking me out a little. Maybe I shouldn't tell him about my girlfriend, who is often on his street for hours at a time with only an elderly person with her"? No, of course not, because you're obviously the main character and your need to feel like you're Magnum P.I. trumps everyone else's rights. Miss me with that "show me your papers" BS.

@Adam Johnson to be fair...he said value. I would consider the value to be lessened considerably by active Karens in my neighborhood. The property upkeep falls to the owner, I imagine not alot of criminals are forward thinking enough to maintain a household and are most likely renters. Quite a few properties I encounter on the daily are unkempt...some actually hazardous. Hard working, (60+hours/week) law abiding citizens too stressed out and exhausted ....and sometimes too old to properly maintain.

@Adam Johnson ummm have you ever watched a documentary about a criminal enterprise? Most of them live pretty lavish lifestyles. And plenty of criminals live in gated communities. They just aren't constantly on the news due to biased media and a biased country in general. People would quickly notice a pattern.

Friendly reminder; *Adam Johnson* is very likely John Smith, the regular far-right troll that came here to argue in bad faith and cowardly playing dumb when cornered (which is so easy that even my seven-year old niece could do). Better not to reply to him, or at least not directly.

@@danielr.y5261 thank you 💚

@Adam Johnson That maybe true about your average dope slanger but those supplying the dope slanger lives in lavish areas and they aren't apart of a mob or cartel but more than likely getting that dope from a mob or cartel!

Most cops use 9 mm semiautomatics, loaded with hollowpoint rounds, as their duty weapons here in Freedomland. Hollowpoints don't penetrate walls as effectively as other rounds. ...I don't currently own a firearm, but when I did I had hollowpoint rounds.

@@grmpEqweer 9mm round will travel for a distance of 2400 yards - those bullets don't care where they go and who or what they hit. Anybody in the impact area (approx. 10 degrees to the left and right of the muzzle end) can be killed or wounded. Poor fire discipline by the cops.

@@grmpEqweer yeahhhhhh but that is *if* they're doing a justifiable amount of shooting, which cops are not known for. you get four cops on a scene and that's potentially between 80 - *200* bullets.

@@grmpEqweer Most cops these days use 40 caliber or 10 mm since 9 mm just aren't deadly enough for them.

I don't remember the details but that reminds me of a house being raided a while ago and the neighbors complaining of the holes in their walls where the bullets had gone through.

Police often have slippery trigger fingers. I think if some Karen type person calls the cops for a totally unfounded reason like "the black kids are hanging out across the street and look suspicious" or something AND it results in someone getting killed by the cops the "Karen" should face involuntary manslaughter charges for creating the danger in the first place and I think I am being GENEROUS with the "involuntary".

You beat me to it. That was the first thought that leapt to mind.

Depending on neighborhood politics, the police would respond regardless even if public safety wasn’t at threat.

I was think about calling the PD about it and see if they would talk to the neighbor.

@@kevinconrad6156 All of that would depend on how the situation looks like - with details. Police are people (going controversial for the channel - bear with me please) - they don't like being someone's dogs. But if neighbor is IDK - important person in local hospital or something like that, or donates heavily to Police - they will bear being dogs, because it's easier than the alternative.

True, and if you live in other areas, they won't respond to calls for any reason. I'm not joking. There is a huge neighborhood in East Oakland called _Sobrante Park_ that has only one way in and out. The O.P.D. keeps a patrol car parked at the entrance 24/7, but they never go inside, not even to escort the ambulances and coroners. One day my friend asked me to drive him over to his moms to pick up a few things for his new apartment (I'd never even heard of the place before then), and as we drove into what looked like an average neighborhood at first, I started noticing bullet holes in all of the walls (many of them groups of holes scattered in horizontal lines from automatic weapons), and 10 to 11 year old kids selling crack on the sidewalk. That made me wonder where the teenagers were until I noticed heads peeking over the edge of roofs. His mom lived in a three story apartment building near the far end that had all of it's windows boarded up with plywood. Mind you this was 11am and I got the feeling none of them had ever seen a white person in that neighborhood before me. I'm a confident person and it takes a lot to actually scare me. I've even had a gun pointed at my head from six feet away before. This was in Oakland too, but it was some random white dude from the suburbs, and it's the only time anyone has ever pulled a gun on me. I still remained calm with that gun leveled at me, but Sobrante Park is one place I will never go again. Seeing all of that was the greatest example of systemic bigotry and the harm it does that I've ever seen with my own two eyes. The police had left the all black neighborhood on it's own for so many decades, that poverty and lack of any outside support, especially not from the the police, had conspired to create a neighborhood where gangs were the only enforcement of any kind. Luckily that friend of mine grew up in a much different area. His dad was rich, so rich he could afford lawyers to keep him from having to pay much child support for his younger brother, and not have to pay any alimony after divorcing his mom, witch is why she ended up there after they lived in the richest city in the SF East Bay: Piedmont, a city that is literally inside the city of Oakland. One of those places where you will get a ticket at 2am on a lonely road with no traffic whatsoever, just for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. This actually happened to me, and I am a very careful driver and did stop enough the car lurched to a halt. Quite the opposite, being a super wealthy almost entirely white city, from Sobrante Park. I did however have another friend who did grow up in Sobrante Park. He moved out of there when he was 13 and started working full time, because otherwise he had two choices: join a gang, or be murdered by one of them. His life outside of that neighborhood was no picnic though. The surroundings he grew up in had made him a much different person that he otherwise would have been, and some of the ways he had adopted just to survive childhood made it very difficult for people who never even knew such places existed, to accept him. He's a really good person, but even knowing that I was still hard pressed to not feel intimidated sometimes myself. But you know, I am more proud of him than I am of most people I've met. He overcame a severe handicap so obviously brought on by systemic bigotry, and made a good life for himself as a landscaper, and is one one of the hardest working people I've ever met. I'm very proud to have had him as my friend. ^-^

Not for those calling the police constantly because of racist, xenophobic or whatever beliefs they have. Close neighbors are not the only people that may drive or walk down your streets. Seeing any "others" as a potential criminal in the 1st place, or just causing harassment because of hateful beliefs, is the actual issue.

@@karenl7786 Agreed

@@karenl7786 - I used to work security. One place was an apartment building. There were people who called with bullshit complaints simply to harass other tenants. Some people have less maturity than small children.

@@karenl7786 Still, it is a good first step. If they recognize the car down the street as belonging to the Jones’s, they’re not gonna call the cops. Added Bonus: If they don’t recognize the car sitting there for 5 minutes, they’ll have plenty of neighbors they can call for clarification before calling armed thugs to handle the situation. This behavior is relatively new at this rate of occurrence. Maybe it has something to do with feeling isolated and not feeling like part of a community.

@@charliekowittmusic Good points

Your neighbors are good neighbors by todays standard. Live and let live is the best we can ask for these days.

Oh no, if you were on fire they'd stop to take pics that they'd hope would "go viral".

@@pharag4886 Sadly your right

I have a story similar to that. A woman driving her car down my street in the wee hours ran into my neighbors car that was parked at the curb, pushing the parked vehicle onto my lawn. My neighbor came out of his house to investigate and the driver took off running, with him in pursuit. When she saw some folks outside their houses she yelled "RAPE" -- so they tackled him. The police arrived to sort things out and it didn't work to her advantage that her boyfriend was still unconscious in the wrecked truck. I believe she was ultimately charged with drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident with injuries. My neighbor was allowed to go back into his house to try to get some more sleep. Interesting times.

With the size of TVs today if somebody is big enough to carry one under their arm. I am going to leave them alone.

I've been pulled over in my own driveway before. Statistically speaking, there have to be good cops, but I've never met one who who didn't make things worse.

What about false alarms?

@EmbleerHomba If Karen calls the police and it turns out to be nonsense, as it is with most Karens, they should be fined. It sounds as if you're being purposely obtuse about my post, and the obvious abuse/misuse of dialing 911.

Whenever I call the police, I use thenon emergency # & I've learned from the Amy Cooper incident I do not mention the race, I explain the situation.

I want to agree with you; but …. police! The assessment/reporting of whether it is a “non-emergency” call would be left to the police. In that world as in ours “Karen/Ken gonna be alright.” 🤬

@@mljones655 Bingo!

I was on "nextdoor" for a month then left. Thanks for the invite......but NO THANKS.

Or you will be the little boy/girl who cried wolf too many times and when the wolf does show up, the lumber jacks won’t be coming to fight off the wolf.

The purpose of NextDoor is to sow distrust, hatred and fear so that the small businesses that are NextDoor's advertising customers can sell security products, fencing, lights, etc., and to rival Facebook's political advertising business with their unique selling point of hyper localism. Good luck talking to your neighbours when they have already been poisoned against you. The various "smart" doorbell companies are trying a similar strategy on their own platforms, with an even more obvious commercial incentive towards destroying trust. Community spirit has been monetised. They control the platform on which you communicate, even to your neighbours now.

We do too. We couldn't have been given a catalog, picked out, bought and paid for, better neighbors. We love where we live. And no one around here uses that next door crap.

That doesn't mean you have good neighbors, that just mean that you aren't the target.

Same here.

@@ladywesker5307 I think Yote knows their neighbors better than you do.

Sorry to hear that.

It'd be nice if your apartment buildings could just issue a sticker for residents, and also have designated guest parking... That way mr/ms paranoid would have less to complain about? ...Or they could just figure out that nonwhite people rent apartments...🤦

@@grmpEqweer it takes a bit to get the stickers and they are hard to see. The funny thing is that my neighborhood is incredibly diverse. She is just an old nosy racist.

@Adam Johnson But the guy down the way with eyesore property keeps my taxes down.

@Adam Johnson As explained in the Declaration of Independence, governments are instituted to protect property rights. I may disagree with the value the government places on my property and the rate at which it is taxed. However the money is used to protect my legal rights and title to the property from others.

@@shawnr771 Hey Shawn. Apparently adam johnson is john smith in different clothes. Daniel & others have noticed some serious similarities, and it is a only months old account. (It's regurgitating the same arguments, whether or not it is.) Reply to it or not, your call. Just wanted to let you know.

Aaaaand what's even better is that It acts just like johnny, when you start warning other people about it.

@Adam Johnson Who do you think enforces the titles and your legal rights in court? When the police are called because of a break in and theft. They are responding to enforce your right to own property and not have it stolen or vandalized. The title is also the legal document used in court against squatters. A large majority of court cases in the US are specifically about property rights. Be those cases about physical or intellectual property such as patents or copyrights.

No reason for you to feel guilty at all for the second one, more cars driven by more assholes, kill more people than guns and knives combined and guns and knives kill plenty.

My son has a classmate who is being buried on Monday. They haven't released the reason for the auto accident, but it suspiciously looks like texting. CALL.

If you called 911 at everything in NYC, you'd never stop calling, Louis.

A friend of mine is a cop, he told me that texting is a bigger problem than drunk driving right now.

@@woohunter1 He's not wrong

I don't know too many people who's primary asset is not their home?

Only if you can quickly delineate what is, in fact, illegal. Way too many people are thinking that if they personally don't like or agree with something...it MUST be illegal and therefore calling police is justified and warranted.

"Did you exchange, a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?" Pink Floyd.

Typically I find those types who stick there noise (Sic) into everyone else's business are actually scared of life. It terrifies them they have little to now control over everything, and so they lash out like a feral animal at everything.

second 😊🥈

I am suffering with exactly the same situation. It sucks.

these types of people never outgrew their Underoos and they like to prove it on the regular!

yeah Nextdoor is the FB for neighbors

6 months from now he could be that guy on the street. They'll never learn.

I totally agree with both of you. Keyboard warriors say/do anything without consequences.

I only check our nextdoor app occasionally due to dogs loose in the neighborhood...it has helped get several pets back to their owners. Or our municipality will notify us that leaf pick-up etc is going to be in our area on certain days. Otherwise, I don't bother with it.

@@antiquegirl6505 we have a Facebook page for lost pets. I wont go back to that app ever.

@@antiquegirl6505 I've seen one like that which is dog/cat missing or can anyone recommend a plumber type of thing. Some people moving into the area just saying 'hi'. Makes sense without nosy troublemakers.

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Sometimes though you find some good like minded neighbors who can come together for good causes like helping neighbors who are worthy of being helped. I mow a sweet 82 year old widows grass 1 x every 3 months and other neighbors pick up other times. Wouldn't of met her if a different neighbor wasn't bitching about her weeds and her quick need to call code enforcement instead of just checking to see if she was okay or needed something. That's everybody's inclination call the police call code enforcement rather than just knocking and saying hey is it all good. If there are delinquent Butthead then that's one thing but if they're not then they deserve the respect in the decency for people to check on them that's my opinion

please stop making all that noise. Some of us have jobs and would like to have a little nap in between shifts.

@@brianbenoit6883 none of that inherently makes much noise

@Adam Johnson did you literally just comment without actually watching the video?

@Adam Johnson the point was that in most cases a crime wasn’t actually being committed or even thought about. I’ve seen the effects of Nextdoor harassment. It’s nasty and can ruin lives.

@Adam Johnson Whether or not to report a crime isn't the topic of discussion here. The topic of discussion concerns people who sick the cops on random people minding their business. Those kinds of people are straight up evil. And are free from silly little things like Morality, Decency, or Respect for other people not a part of their own group. 🙃

@Adam Johnson That still has nothing to do with the topic. You might be posting under the wrong video.

@Adam Johnson Nope. It isn't. Not in this video. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

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@hognoxious More like a horned owl. I had one in my house for a while, long long ago. Owl are great.

Honestly, this perspective that Beau introduced was just as stupid as Trump’s perspective that Covid cases were only going up because they were being reported on. Beau fumbled that one, tried to pick it back up but dropped it in mud.

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