On October 26, 2020, police killed Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia, as his mother stood on the sidewalk, pleading for his life. Over the next few days, the neighborhood erupted in protest, and ...

It was around 6:30 p.m. on a frigid Friday night when word of a police shooting in New York City began to permeate. Two New York Police Department officers had been ...

Almost every story about the crime-reporting app Citizen starts the same way. The writer tells, in great detail, about a series of crimes that were just committed. The writer knows this not from ...

Citizen, the app that tracks local crime and lets users film incidents as they happen, has launched a new subscription service. It’s called Protect, and it enables subscribers who pay the $20 monthly ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An app that claims to alert you in seconds when a crime is in progress nearby is making its debut in South Florida. However, the app is causing some controversy in other cities that ...

Amber Connor keeps up with what criminals are up to by listening to police scanner traffic and watching for local news bulletins, and often shares updates with contacts via social media. Always eager ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- An unprecedented $5 million commitment is helping the Asian American community combat a rise in hate crimes and attacks in the Bay Area with a mobile app. Citizen, the most popular ...

Andrew Frame couldn’t fathom why armed men, guns drawn, were pulling him out of bed early one morning. It was 1997, he was 17, living in Las Vegas, and the men with the guns, it turned out, were FBI ...

However the “personal safety” app adapts its message, it’s still toying with how you feel about your own community. By Peter C. Baker The “personal safety” app Citizen recently sent me a heartwarming ...

In a nutshell: Imagine being paid to report on emergencies such as a missing child, a house fire, a shootout, a hit-and-run. That's what Citizen is doing, an app that alerts its user about dangerous ...

Next time you’re walking alone at night or meeting up with a stranger for a first date, one startup would like to listen in – with the goal of protecting you. Citizen, an app best known and sometimes ...