Connect and live more safely. Citizen is a personal safety network that empowers you to protect yourself and the people and places you care about. Download for access to real-time alerts, instant help from crisis responders, and safety tracking for friends and families. Man Rescued from Chinatown Fire. Lost Dog Returned to Owner. Family Escapes Burning Building. Missing Year-Old Girl Found. Uber Driver Saved from Shootout.
Be situationally aware. Citizen alerts go out within seconds of a or user report. Connect with your family, friends, and neighbors on Citizen and find out when something important is happening around them.
Watch incidents unfold from different angles and follow along until they get resolved. Citizen alerts go out instantly β this can be hours before Amber Alerts are even issued for children in danger. This speed has been critical in acting on important events like abductions and missing elderly people. You used to have to call a police tip line to help.
Now you can use Citizen to broadcast live video, sharing relevant updates with others. You can also leave comments, which have helped locate missing people and share information about evacuation centers during natural disasters. Because Citizen alerted me about a medical emergency near the hospital where I work, I was able to prepare an operating room more than 20 minutes before EMS called us about the patient.
We saved his life because we had that extra time from Citizen. Those minutes matter. My brother texted me panicked from a store. Customers were being held inside without knowing why. I checked Citizen, instantly found out and we followed the incident until it was safe for him to leave. He downloaded the app right after that. If there's police activity or there's a road closure, or something just doesn't feel right, it's incredibly helpful to pull up the app and know why.
