Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force
Source: Vice News
The plans mark a dramatic expansion of Citizen's purview. It is currently an app where users report "incidents" in their neighborhoods and, based on those reports and police scanner transcriptions, the app sends "real-time safety alerts" to users about crime and other incidents happening near where a user is located. It is essentially a mapping app that allows users to both report and learn about crime (or what users of the app perceive to be crime) in their neighborhood. The introduction of in-person, private security forces drastically alters the service, and potential impact, that Citizen may offer in the future, and provides more context as to why a Citizen-branded vehicle has been spotted driving around Los Angeles. The news comes after Citizen offered a $30,000 bounty against a person it falsely accused of starting a wildfire.
"The broad master plan was to create a privatized secondary emergency response network," one former Citizen employee told Motherboard. Motherboard granted multiple sources anonymity to protect them from retaliation from the company.
"It's been something discussed for a while but I personally never expected it to make it this far," another Citizen source told Motherboard.[/fiv]
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7evbx/citizen-app-private-security-leaked-emails
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,358 posts)Is it security guard pay ($14 an hour to start!) with the added benefit of being sued by EVERYONE you deal with?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts).... BLM/Antifa hordes are coming to get them, they might as well cash in on the fear they helped create.
There are already private security working my neighborhood. I think some blocks got together and hired them.
Also, the nightclub area has private security run by a Chicago cop. He sold the service saying he would only hire off duty cops - turns out some of them arent cops. Some are ex cons.
bucolic_frolic
(43,191 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)SpankMe
(2,957 posts)SKKY
(11,813 posts)...and yea, I think this just may be it.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)This has so many way it can go wrong and virtually zero that it can go right. This will bring every George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse out of the woodwork thinking they are some sort of "citizens watch patrol" with one finger on the summon the vigilantes app button and the other hand on a gun... i misspoke earlier... this is going to (not can go) be bad if it is allowed to continue.
Marcuse
(7,488 posts)Arger68
(679 posts)and Kyle Rittenhouse out there will be signing up to be a wannabe cop. What could possibly go wrong??
paleotn
(17,931 posts)Poorly trained OFFICIAL police are bad enough. Joe Blow redneck with his pea shooter? Ummm, no.
3Hotdogs
(12,393 posts)minding their own business. Then, along came Antifa and B.L.M. marching up his street. He did what any red blooded, Trump lovin' American would do. He and his squeeze pulled out their guns to stand their ground.
So what happens? He gets indicted and has to run for Senate. THAT SUCKS !!!
Now if there had been a civilian posse comitatus like in the Citizens plan, he wouldn't'a been in no trouble.
uncle ray
(3,156 posts)Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)it would seem