Nextdoor is thrilled to announce partnerships with five additional police departments across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Today, police departments in the cities of Irving, Frisco, Denton, Rockwall, and Cedar Hill are starting to use Nextdoor to better communicate with residents, encourage neighbor-to-neighbor communication, and facilitate virtual crime watch.

These five police departments join six other police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex that already use Nextdoor to make their communities safer, including Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Richardson, Grand Prairie and Richland Hills.

“We are very proud to partner with so many police departments across the DFW area,” says Nextdoor Co-founder, Sarah Leary. “We created Nextdoor with the hope of bringing back a sense of community to the neighborhood, and it has evolved into a real crime fighting tool that police departments use on a daily basis to share crime prevention and safety information.”

So far, hundreds of neighborhoods across the Dallas-Fort Worth area are using Nextdoor. Many neighborhoods in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex can now look forward to receiving timely information from their police department that will ultimately make their neighborhoods safer.

To get your neighborhood started on Nextdoor visit nextdoor.com and enter in your address.

Best,

Robbie Turner
City Specialist

Last week the San Jose Police Department (SJPD) announced its newly established department direction with Nextdoor’s help. The department has developed a new strategy called RCITI (pronounced “Our City”).

Understanding the importance and impact that social media has on our lives today, the SJPD is utilizing technology as an accelerator to accomplish RCITI’s Innovation mission. Acting Chief Larry Esquivel explained the benefits of Nextdoor when he stated, “Nextdoor is another way our Department and our community can use technology to stay informed and reduce crime through increased awareness. We know that connected and engaged neighbors lead to safer communities.”

The Police Department will now be using Nextdoor to push out relevant crime prevention information as well as keep residents informed about the activities of their Police Department. While the Department will maintain its own Nextdoor page and will be able to post content into neighborhood websites, it will not have access to individual neighborhood websites or their content. With 318 neighborhoods (87% of neighborhoods in the City) using Nextdoor, the Police Department is well positioned to use Nextdoor as a tool to help prevent crime.

To learn more about the SJPD new department direction and see how Nextdoor fits into it, check out this story on ABC Bay Area: http://bit.ly/YZISYD

Best,

Today we are in sunny San Diego to launch Nextdoor with the police department. Adopting Nextdoor as a citywide communications tool is part of the police department’s plans to double its efforts for neighborhood watch. Already 76% of neighborhoods in San Diego have started their Nextdoor websites.

The San Diego Police Department joins other progressive police departments, like the Dallas PD and Denver PD, who understand that using technology is vital in the fight for safer, stronger neighborhoods.

Today we’re excited to announce that the Denver Police Department is partnering with Nextdoor to facilitate a citywide virtual neighborhood watch program and help foster neighbor-to-neighbor communications. Already 80 percent of Denver neighborhoods are using Nextdoor.

Denver Police Chief Robert White says, “Our main goal is to prevent crime, and with the additional eyes and ears of members in our community we will be safer. We encourage our community members to work together and look out for one another.”

Denver joins more than 100 city and police/fire departments who have partnered with Nextdoor, like Dallas and San Jose, who all believe that leveraging technology is vital in helping to further strengthen community ties and combat crime.

When Nextdoor partners with a city, neighbors self-manage their own Nextdoor websites and periodically get updates from city officials. Following today’s launch in Denver, residents will receive pertinent crime and safety information from their local Denver police on their Nextdoor neighborhood website. It’s important to note that the Denver Police Department will not be able to access the residents’ websites, contact information or neighborhood messages.

Nextdoor’s momentum in Colorado continues next month with the launch of partnerships with Fort Collins and Lakewood Police Departments.

If you’re interested in bringing Nextdoor to your police department, email city@nextdoor.com.

Justine Fenwick
City Specialist