The crowdsourcing crime-tracking app Citizen, whose earliest backers include the venture capitalist billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, is ditching plans to develop a private police force ...

Policing and police violence are at the forefront of public conversation. Some in the tech industry think they can help transform policing with apps, but the results have so far been disastrous, ...

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — According to Baldwin County's county manager, their number one road complaint is potholes. Their new citizen portal app is aimed at helping the county fix those problems with your ...

Citizen app was known as Vigilante in the past, a title that was so provocative that Apple banned it from its App Store and initiated a rebranding. In 2017, it relaunched as an app that is built on ...

Citizen is a smartphone app that alerts you when crimes, emergencies, and other potentially dangerous events happen in your area. Events reported by Citizen are taken automatically from recent 911 ...

Imagine Uber but for ordering a private security force directly to your location. According to leaked emails obtained by Vice, Citizen, the neighborhood watch app where people can report local ...

When Dee Debenport saw a report of shots fired in her area of Columbus, Ohio on the Citizen App, she immediately called some of her friends in the neighborhood watch to check it out. As the Connect 2 ...