Well, you can't get an account until you validate your postal address, then you only get access to posts from your neighborhood and adjoining neighborhoods. On

Well, you can't get an account until you validate your postal address, then you only get access to posts from your neighborhood and adjoining neighborhoods. Once you've signed up, if you install the app, you can configure push notifications about crimes in progress. You can also get emails for urgent things, if you prefer. Whether this improves, or diminishes, security and quality of life relative to reading your local newspaper's coverage, is unclear to me. Even when it's not subtly racist or ageist profiling, I've never found the alerts to be actionable. But the hyperlocal idea is at least an interesting one.