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I had this app installed for a short time. I removed it when it said "shots fired" on an affluent block nearby. It was teenagers playing with firecrackers. As h
by asveikau 4y ago
I had this app installed for a short time. I removed it when it said "shots fired" on an affluent block nearby. It was teenagers playing with firecrackers. As happens in the neighborhood quite regularly.
I couldn't believe it. Uninstalled immediately.
That was years before the "tough on crime" rhetoric/scare/moral panic that's only amplified since then.
Edit: people are replying that the data source is 911 calls, as if that leaves them off the hook. Maybe this is evidence that 911 calls should not be sent unfiltered as push notifications. That is on Citizen.
- thepasswordis 4y agoIt’s speech to texting the police scanners or dispatch. It means somebody called it in as shots fired.
- CydeWeys 4y agoThe app will take every dumb 911 complaint at face value. Most 911 complaints simply aren't accurate. For every one real gunshot called in, there's many more that end up being a car backfiring, fireworks, etc. And this is true for nearly every category of call 911 gets. Putting the unfiltered feed on a map and sending proximity alerts to app users is less than useless.
- JAlexoid 4y agoShock value is still very high! You're more likely to click on a clickbait article, you're more likely to open an app to see "naked man with knife seen running around 14st"(something I've seen on Citizen in NYC)
- grubbs 4y agoAll this means is someone called 911 and reported they heard gunshots. As someone that lives in Baltimore, this happens ALL the time.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoI’ve seen it post about a police helicopter overhead, but then I look out with my own eyes and its one of the private ones people rent for sightseeing, not the black and white flying pig.