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A new app that launched this week in Los Angeles gives users instant access to information about real-time crime and other emergency situations reported to 911 in their immediate surroundings “Citizen” provides updates to incidents happening around them, along with user-generated livestreaming. The app’s central operations team monitors publicly available information — such as police scanner chatter — and pushes out notifications to users within a certain radius of the crime or emergency incident. A user in New York credited the app for alerting him about a fire in his own apartment building, according to the New York Post. Peter Donald, the app’s head of policy and communication, joined us on Olympic & Bundy to talk about the overall goal of the app, what it does, how it intersects with law enforcement and a lot more. Share this story: https://bit.ly/2EYt1GJ Thank you to Peter Donald! Subscribe to Olympic & Bundy on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher. Connect on social: Faceboo