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When community organizing gets co-opted by exclusionary forces

Our neighborhood watch started with good intentions but now some people are using it to target families they think don't belong here.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Community safety efforts can become vehicles for surveillance and discrimination against vulnerable residents.

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“Where Are You with Community organizing?”

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