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Who says crime doesn’t pay? Certainly not the folks behind the Citizen app, which is now offering to pay New York City and Los Angeles residents to livestream crime scenes.
The feature has been available only to select beta testers since early 2021, and today it rolls out in an app update so any Citizen user can sign up. The new version of the app can even listen for ...
Group of workers at Citizen, the controversial real-time crime alert app, vote to unionize By Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business 2 min read Updated 1:06 PM EST, Tue December 14, 2021 ...
According to Citizen’s metrics, the alert was sent to 178,000 people and viewed by nearly 78,000. On Friday morning, Citizen updated the app’s description of the incident, replacing the ...
PITTSBURGH — Apps that alert us to what’s going on in our neighborhoods are nothing out of the ordinary. But a new app coming to western Pennsylvania is raising concerns over just how they ...