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Citizen crime tracking app is facing scrutiny following a number of controversies New report reveals CEO Andrew Frame's frenzy during botched manhunt in LA Frame offered a $30,000 bounty for arson suspect but identified the wrong man 'Find this f**k...close in on him...no escape' he raged in internal messages Also revealed were paid street teams that pose as regular Citizen users  Meanwhile, Citizen is scrapping ambitious plan to launch private security force The app is popular in major cities as a way to track nearby reports of crimes

Citizen app CEO 'offered bounty' for wrongly accused homeless man Ariel Zilber and Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail ( The CEO of Citizen reportedly ordered a $30,000 ‘bounty’ to anyone who ‘hunts down’ a homeless man identified by the public safety app as the person who started a Southern California wildfire. On Friday, The Verge reported that Citizen CEO and founder Andrew Frame personally authorized an unorthodox $30,000 bounty to 'hunt down' an arsonist - but put the money on the wrong man's head. The app pushed the bounty out in an alert...

Citizen, which was created in New York City in 2017, uses cellphone locations to alert its seven million users of safety hazards and possible criminal activities in their areas, including ones that are unfolding in real time with live discussions and footage from users who are at the scene. In the last few years, the company has expanded to Los Angeles, Baltimore and more than a dozen other locations. Los Angeles County partnered with Citizen during the pandemic to produce an app for contact tracing. On its website, Citizen says the app allows users to “get the real story from people on the...

Man charged with 2 counts of arson in connection with Palisades fire A tanker helicopter prepares to make a water drop on a brush fire near homes in Pacific Palisades. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) May 18, 2021 4:08 PM PT Print The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has charged a man with two counts of arson in connection with the Palisades fire, which forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Ramon Santos Rodriguez, 48, is accused of igniting the blaze Friday. Containment of the fire climbed to 32% Tuesday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Fire...