Letters for November 5, 2015

A-holes next door

Re “The jerks next door” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Feature Story, October 29):

I was pretty excited when I first signed up; I'm not naturally a social person, but I wanted to get to know my neighbors even so. What I found in my local group was actually just dozens of messages, which were like a very strange, loose group of neighborhood-watch wannabes posting things like “There's a guy riding a bike slowly down F Street. He just passed 19th. He's riding slowly and typing on his phone a LOT. Keep an eye out. He's black on a red bike.” Not even kidding.

We let the same four or five people do the “Hey, stop being racist” or “Hey, that's incorrect” responses, because we're tired—and now know that all of our neighbors are assholes.

T Rhodes

Midtown

Next to nothing

Re “The jerks next door” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Feature Story, October 29):

I am on Nextdoor in the Elk Grove area. I have considered getting off it a couple of times because I get very tired of neighbors who are constantly screaming that others on the site are racist when descriptions of what has been observed are reported. A description is a description, and it should be taken for what it is—nothing more and nothing less.

Pamela Blankenship

Elk Grove

Oh, man

Re “The jerks next door” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Feature Story, October 29):

The politically correct hypocrisy of this article is downright amusing, thanks to your smug obliviousness to your own sexism. It’s incorrect to warn a neighborhood that a “black man on a bike” was trespassing in someone’s backyard, and instead we should only warn: “man on a bike”? Shouldn’t “enlightenment” mean we should report “person on a bike”? Why is it not OK to profile a black man because he’s black, but perfectly OK to profile him because he’s a man?

Fred Hayward

Sacramento

Thanks, neighbors

Re “The jerks next door” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Feature Story, October 29):

One thing Nextdoor is GREAT for is asking for recommendations. My house has been roofed, painted and more by a sterling contractor who lives in Tahoe Park. Thanks, neighbors!

Vada Russell

Sacramento