Citizen: Safety & Awareness

[Magnus]

I'm going to be trying out this new app. Supposedly it's going to alert me to any crime happening around me in real time and where there is a "safe zone." It sounds like an excellent vigilante tool and like it can be very effective.

 

[Criticalt]

But knowing where the crime is will scare me.


Can I just get a list of the safe spaces and skip the scary part?

 

[Uzi]

So, what's the app called?

 

[Magnus]

So, what's the app called?

Citizen: Safety & Awareness

 

[Magnus]

God damn thing isn't available for upper NY. It only works in NYC right now.

 

[Magnus]

 

[Magnus]

 

[Magnus]

 

[spat]

By the time the cops are en route and this app knows about it, its probably over.

It should read "cops filling out paperwork over items stolen 1/2 an hour ago"

"Woman mugged a while back, she's on the phone reporting it now..."

 

[Magnus]

By the time the cops are en route and this app knows about it, its probably over.

It should read "cops filling out paperwork over items stolen 1/2 an hour ago"

"Woman mugged a while back, she's on the phone reporting it now..."

lol it was a good attempt on their part. App seems like it could have some potential, but if it's not advanced enough to tell me how to get out of my trouble, I don't want it.

 

[Podmonkey]

In practice wouldn't any big city just be civered by an enormous dot?

 

[spat]

lol it was a good attempt on their part. App seems like it could have some potential, but if it's not advanced enough to tell me how to get out of my trouble, I don't want it.

The thing to do with it would be to aggregate the reports over time, so you can see how many crimes in an area over the last few weeks for instance.

4 guys got mugged on that corner last week, maybe I'll find another route...

even better if they coorelated it to time (all 4 got mugged between midnight and 3am, maybe its safe during the day)

 

[ArmedCorgi]

It's an interesting idea. Though, the paranoid in me thinks it's just one more piece of technology that can be used in a negative way by authorities. It should be called "False flag, the go where we tell you, nothing to see here so move on, app".