Mayor Eric Adams announced over the weekend that New York City will send users real-time public safety alerts based on their specific location through the crime-tracking app Citizen. At the same time, it also announced an integration with Citizen to support sending alerts and pulling in public videos from Citizen’s users. Citizen lets users report potential safety incidents, share videos, and broadcast live footage from within its app. The app later relaunched as Citizen and has faced heavy criticism in the years since, with some arguing it fuels fear in communities. In 2021, Citizen CEO Andrew Frame came under fire for encouraging users to hunt down the wrong person suspected of starting a California wildfire.