Michigan City Draws Criticism for Removing Anti-Crime Signs to be ‘Inclusive’
The resolution claimed the signs “encouraged informal surveillance practices that disproportionately targeted people of color and contributed to patterns of exclusion under the guise of public safety.”
Ann Arbor, MI, removed all 600 anti-crime signs in the city in the name of inclusivity.
The University of Michigan’s home has lost its mind.
The city council voted on the resolution in December, but completed the task this week.
The resolution claimed the signs “encouraged informal surveillance practices that disproportionately targeted people of color and contributed to patterns of exclusion under the guise of public safety.”
“These programs were often rooted in assumptions about who did and did not ‘belong’ in a neighborhood, reinforcing race-based hyper-vigilance and suspicion particularly toward Black, Brown, and other marginalized residents and visitors,” according to the resolution.
The resolution claimed the signs “encouraged informal surveillance practices that disproportionately targeted people of color and contributed to patterns of exclusion under the guise of public safety.”
From Fox News:
Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor, a Democrat, further explained the decision in an official video released by the city and set to music. Taylor said that “Frankly, neighborhood watch signs are expressions of exclusion.”
The resolution to remove the signs passed by the City Council read that the neighborhood watch programs “were often rooted in assumptions about who did and did not ‘belong’ in a neighborhood, reinforcing race-based hyper-vigilance and suspicion particularly toward Black, Brown, and other marginalized residents and visitors,” according to The Midwesterner.
In its statement, the city called the neighborhood watch program “defunct,” saying that it emerged “during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change.”
“Such signage,” the city said, “does not reduce crime and can reinforce biased surveillance.”
The resolution also said neighborhood watch programs and signs don’t stop crime and reinforced racism:
In October 2025, CBS News reported that crime in downtown Ann Arbor went up by 9% over the past year, while violent crime rose 11%.
Overall, though, crime in Ann Arbor dropped 7%, and violent crime dropped 4%.
🚨 Ann Arbor, MI, just ripped down 600 “Neighborhood Crime Watch” signs in order to be more “inclusive” and “welcoming”…
Inclusive and welcoming to who? Criminals?!
They claimed the old signs were racist. HUH?! Now the truth is apparently “racist.”
Feelings > Safety 🤡 pic.twitter.com/GpWPUWWsox
— Based Bandita (@BasedBandita) April 29, 2026
🚨Imbeciles: Ann Arbor just yanked 600 anti-crime signs citywide so the streets look more “inclusive” and “welcoming.”
Because nothing screams safety like pretending crime doesn’t exist. Woke priorities over public safety again. pic.twitter.com/OVo6PYgGVg
— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) April 29, 2026
We need to welcome and be inclusive to our criminal brethren. https://t.co/AUK5tgIhz8
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) April 29, 2026
So… criminals are welcome now?! https://t.co/Esi4QodRtw
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) April 29, 2026
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On my time the town was basically the University plus a few local stores. I’m sure that’s all changed. In any event nothing leftist they do would surprise me.
It is interesting though how people cling to the concept of racism and just won’t let it go, The hand wringing over a bunch of signs almost no one gives a second thought about is an excellent example of this.
Maybe if “people of color” were not committing crimes well out of proportion to their numbers…
It’s possible. You might want to check with Yogi.
the fact that the people give in to the real racists is the story
how about a counter attack and get the good people of “color” to attack the council for this
“. . . disproportionately targeted people of color and contributed to patterns of exclusion under the guise of public safety.”
And now for something completely different,
from Charles Murray, Facing Reality (2021),
The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart float free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college admissions, segregation in housing, and hiring and promotions in the workplace ignore the ways in which the problems that prompt the allegations of systemic racism are driven by these two realities.
What good can come of bringing them into the open? America’s most precious ideal is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.
We on the center left and center right who are the American Creed’s natural defenders have painted ourselves into a corner. We have been unwilling to say openly that different groups have significant group differences. Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality is a step in that direction.
the lawmakers dont care about this
so they write these laws that allow leftism to thrive and the good people accept defeat
The following is how progressives think.
Is there equity in everything??
Well no
– more blacks punished in schools
– more blacks in prison
– more whites (especially white males) as CEOs, executives, and board members.
– more whites (especially white males) in STEM jobs
etc….
Why are there these inequities??
Well it is because of systematic racism!! That is the only explanation because all people
are “equal”
You can essential replace black with women and you have systematic mysogeny.
You can also replace black with any of your other popular victim group and you have systematic whatever…
Never mind about merit or ability or accomplishment or demeanor or anything else that separates one person from another. It has to be systematic fill-in-the-blank
Welcome to the progressives intersectionalism where any group can also be made white in situations where it is otherwise inconvenient to the narrative for it to be nonwhite (See Jews, Asians, Indians, Hispanic, etc…)
I figured this had the smell of Democrats behind it. So much for ‘if you see something…keep your mouth shut.’
“…reinforcing race-based hyper-vigilance and suspicion particularly toward Black, Brown, and other marginalized residents and visitors,”
I don’t need hundreds of street signs to tell me what I already knew to be the case. Even the late Rev. Jackson agreed with me there.
Sometimes, stereotypes are beliefs drawn from hard statistics and painful life lessons. Your mileage (hopefully) will vary.
The Dhimmi-crats — including the utterly despicable narcissist, Obama, who threw his own white grandmother under the bus, to engage in his typically dishonest and slanderous demagoguery and racial arson — farcically contend that it’s allegedly racist for a cab driver to refrain from picking up black customers, and for people to avoid black males, especially those in groups, on the street.
That’s not racism; it’s common sense and self-preservation, given the reality of black males’ committing ~40%-plus of violent felonies, in the U.S.
“If I had a sociopath son who had attacked and attempted to murder a man, by punching him and slamming his head into a concrete sidewalk, he’d look like St. Trayvon of the Blessed Skittles.”
— Narcissist-Incompetent-Dunce, Obama
Dhimmi-crats should focus on arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating the criminal sociopaths “of color” who are committing violent felonies at a rate that is hugely disproportionate to blacks’ percentage of the U.S. population.
Oh, but, the Dhimmi-crat believe that this course of action is allegedly “racist,” or something.
Thinking of George Zimmerman…..he wasn’t on active watch that night…that is why he was armed. The HMO required NOT being armed on neighborhood watch. Maybe every home should list on a billboard outside what they own so crooks can be choosy. Police in some areas recommend leaving car keys by front door so that only the door gets busted and the car stolen. Should we return to….”we don’t watch and report…. we just shoot and report!”?
When I lived in Walla Walla, Washington for a year the practice of people in the neighborhood of the maximum security prison (in business since 1886 and former site of executions before they were halted by the state supreme court) was to leave the keys in their cars and trucks because they didn’t want the escaped convicts to come into their houses. Apparently people didn’t want their doors destroyed and some people who were at home at the time found themselves “entertaining” their guests in rather unpleasant ways. 50 years ago the Castle Doctrine was still in effect but I don’t know about any more given the politics of the state.
Those who live near prisons often keep a second cheap running car in the driveway with keys on the seat.
In hopes that any escapee will take the offer instead of attempting to break in.
would be a nice twist to this story:
neighborhood then replaced the “stolen” signs with pictures of kyle rittenhouse
Why do “liberals” assume “people of color” are criminals?
Crime is to be normalized in the liberal world order. They simply want people to be able to get away with crimina behavior up to and including killing you in cold blood.
Law abiding citizens must adapt
Take a page out of Gov Abbott’s book and send all your unincluded criminals to ann arbor.
It all makes perfect sense for the Democrats of Ann Arbor. If there is encouragement for citizens to report suspicious activity to authorities; then it will have the effect of limiting the ability to commit crimes. Some of those so limited will be members of government favored protected classes who are not subject to the law.
Subotai Bahadur
Yes it’s exclusionary. That’s the whole point. Normal people (not Ann Arbor democrats) actually want to exclude criminals from their neighborhoods.
same way they run the prisons…the schools ( one in the same now)
make sure the criminals keep the good people in line
the pleasure of pain is the lefty way
This problem isn’t as simple as people on the left or right pretend it is. The designs of all our systems are oriented toward people whose IQs are greater than 100 – and young. Life is getting more difficult for the other two thirds of the population.
Charles Murray suggests we acknowledge the problem and create thoughtful solutions. That seems unlikely.
And then also there is this thing called “human nature”, which leftists devoutly believe is infinitely malleable. It’s not.
Jordan Peterson has commented that people below 80 IQ (might have been a bit lower) are essentially problems in a modern society. Most reliably can’t hold jobs and many have poor impulse control. That’s a lot of people. What do you do with them?
Our current plan seems to be encourage them to have lots of kids. Discourage smart people especially smart women from having any kids. Also if smart people have some kids the smart woman should definitely work at her very important career at desk somewhere and pay the low IQ people to raise her kids. Preferably after they divorce their boring husband that didn’t make them “happy”.
Mike Judge has a story of the result of our current plan.
MI is effed up. How do they cope with all that white snow every year?
Mayor Christopher Tayler (D)
Ward 1 Lisa Disch (D)
Ward 1 Cynthia Harrison (D)
Ward 2 Jon Mallek (D)
Ward 2 Chris Watson (D)
Ward 3 Travis Radina (D)
Ward 3 Ayesha Ghazi Edwin (D)
Ward 4 Jen Eyer (D)
Ward 4 Dharma Akmon (D)
Ward 5 Erica Briggs (D)
Ward 5 Jenn Cornell (D)
And people are surprised that the City Council voted to remove the Neighborhood Crime Watch signs? Consdering the political make-up of the city government my question would be what took them so long to do this.
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Ann Arbor City Council