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Nicholas Sheriff@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
This app was banned by the App store it use to be uder another name Vigilante: https://www.theguardian.com/tech... Crime-reporting app Vigilante kicked off App Store over Apple's content concerns. Apple has removed the crime-reporting app Vigilante from the App Store less than a week after it launched amid fears that it could be dangerous, according to re… See more
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Samuel Cardillo Lespes@samuelcardillo · Xoogler & Tech advisor
Hi @nicholassheriff, I think you should really read their blog post (https://medium.com/@CrimeNoMore/...) where they explain how they learned from Vigilante and how Citizen App is different. Also, just to pinpoint a very important fact, people are not reporting crime in-app but only display in "real-time" ongoing 911 alerts which are coming from the dispat… See more
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Andrew Erdle@gooderdle · Partner, VP of Brand @TheSill
@samuelcardillo @nicholassheriff @crimenomore just "reporting" is still an issue for people of color and many others. separate example: had a friend that was in a helicopter in Iraq, they would receive an alert to look out for militants in a white truck... everyone had a white truck.
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Nicholas Sheriff@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@gooderdle @samuelcardillo @crimenomore They don't care, Andrew, they aren't black, everyone is white on their team and they have their goal they want to reach all cost. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/n... This product is specifically designed, the system the deployment all of it is designed to celebrate profiling. Probably hasn't heard of Trayvon Martin.… See more
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Samuel Cardillo Lespes@samuelcardillo · Xoogler & Tech advisor
@nicholassheriff @gooderdle @crimenomore Whatever 🙄
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