That seems like an intentionally uncharitable reading of the email. “the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victim

That seems like an intentionally uncharitable reading of the email. “the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present“ is the purported problem, the app having information about the location of police checkpoints (like waze) is specifically called “benign”.