It recently advertised an editorial position that would coordinate news coverage on crime, specifically based around its Ring video doorbell and Neighbors, its attendant social media app. Now Amazon has thrown its hat in the ring - with Ring. ![]() It also allows users to livestream footage they record of the crime scene, “chat with other Citizen users as situations develop” and “build out your Inner Circle of family and friends to create your own personal safety network, and receive alerts whenever they’re close to danger.” ![]() In practice, its “crime and safety” section has been a hotbed for racial stereotyping that’s forced the company to rewrite its software and policies.Ĭitizen - whose previous form was called Vigilante and which appeared to encourage users to stop crimes in action - sends users 9-1-1 alerts for crimes happening nearby. Nextdoor bills itself as the “world’s largest social network for the neighborhood,” where you can ask for nearby restaurant recommendations, buy used furniture, or report a stolen bike. ![]() But you wouldn’t know that from a crop of increasingly popular social media apps that are forming around crime.Īpps like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Ring’s Neighbors - all of which allow users to view local crime in real time and discuss it with people nearby - are some of the most downloaded social and news apps in the US, according to rankings from the App Store and Google Play. Violent crime in the US is at its lowest rate in decades.
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