> This is a ridiculous belief. Police scanners (and likely this app) alert people to real crimes being committed and under certain conditions can save lives. My

> This is a ridiculous belief. Police scanners (and likely this app) alert people to real crimes being committed and under certain conditions can save lives. My uncle constantly had a police scanner on when I was young and it alerted us to a man in our neighborhood being pursued after shooting his roommate in the head. I'm going to be pedantic about this, because it matters in a civil society: police scanners relay police knowledge about suspected crimes. They aren't judge, jury, and executioner, and the fact that people uncritically regurgitate them is exactly how we end up in the situations like the Citizen CEO's own mob justice[1]. Nobody wants you to get hurt, and there are cases where listening to the scanner may very well have saved lives. But the overwhelming public interest is against treating them as solemn truth, much less turning them into a Fear App on your phone. [1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citizen-vigilante https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dpyw/inside-crime-app-citi...