The app allows users to anonymously discuss crime and public safety issues within their local community.
The app displays posts and notifications that fall within a five-mile (8 km) radius of the user's home address.
[2] Verified law enforcement agencies can post public bulletins on Neighbors to request assistance for investigations, such as locating a missing person or a suspect in a crime.
[7] The Electronic Frontier Foundation stated that apps such as Neighbors "facilitate reporting of so-called 'suspicious' behavior that really amounts to racial profiling.
"[8] Fight for the Future has considered Ring and Neighbors to be a private surveillance network, backed by partnerships with law enforcement that "undermine our democratic process and basic civil liberties".