Citizen is a mobile app that alerts you when crimes, emergencies, and other potentially dangerous events happen in your area.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the new and improved Citizens’ Voice app! To ensure you continue enjoying the latest news and enhanced features, we kindly ask you to uninstall the old Citizens ...

The Citizen app now has a new city-run “NYC Public Safety” account. The New York City government will provide residents real-time public safety alerts through the Citizen account. Furthermore, major ...

PITTSBURGH — The Citizen app is a crowdsourced public safety app that’s been around for nearly a decade in other major cities. Pittsburgh gets added to the app June 20. Its creators say Citizen’s ...

JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens (PIX11) — If there’s an emergency anywhere in the five boroughs, people need to be informed about it right away, of course. In trying to meet that need, the city has announced ...

Big Tech's broad surveillance push violates privacy at best, and perpetuates racist over-policing at worst. It's exactly the wrong choice for tenuous, tumultuous times. False arrest, racial profiling: ...

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