The company's Twitter feed features some of the more urgent content generated from the app. The content might include videos of emergency crews arriving or locals texting about what they can see from their window. "Something that would affect the route you took to work or where you sent your kids at night wasn’t public knowledge to you," she says.Īrtz gives an example of an alert that Citizen sent to over 6,000 users in New York on Halloween, cautioning them to stay out of Lower Manhattan, where a man driving a pickup truck sped into a crowd of people, killing eight.Īnother feature of the app allows users to livestream their own photos, videos and comments from the scene. “Instead of getting some police jargon and radio codes that probably don’t make sense to you, we’re giving you the information the way that you understand it the best,” Artz says.Įach call, or incident, is then tagged with a location for mapping.Īrtz says the idea is to give people the public safety information that’s out there because, for the most part, it's inaccessible. The company hires trained technicians to monitor emergency dispatch calls - the kind of call you'd hear from a police scanner - and translate them into plain English for users. “So when you see sirens racing by, or you hear a helicopter flying by overhead, you’ll get an alert, and from there you can make a safe and informed decision about where you move.”Ĭitizen says it has amassed roughly 250,000 users in San Francisco and New York, the other city where it provides service. “It’s a hyperlocal, real-time source of everything that could affect your safety happening at that moment,” says Lea Artz, head of operations for Citizen. Tapping on a red dot brings up a timeline with updates like “Officers are on scene” or “Suspect wearing orange hoodie.” You can also set the app to alert you when an incident occurs within a quarter-mile of your location. On a recent morning in San Francisco, these red dot incidents included the following: Citizen's interactive crime map displays recent incidents in San Francisco. Any emergency incidents unfolding across the city are represented as red dots. When you launch the app it brings up a city map. Think of it as police scanner, neighborhood watch, Yelp and Twitter all rolled into one.
The app debuted in San Francisco in September.
It's this type of scenario the smartphone app Citizen is trying to address with its new crime tracker. Should I get up and leave or stay put? Do I start the car or run to the neighbor’s house? In that moment you have no idea what to do. After a few minutes of lying in bed, panic starts to set in. You fumble in the dark for your mobile phone the screen shows it’s just after 3 a.m. Red and blue lights flash through your window shades. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited.You wake to the sound of sirens. To make on-scene time shorter, it is vital to redesign our emergency system and important to develop a system that accommodates critical patients with intoxication and minor disease, and furthermore to reduce the number of phone calls to hospitals from EMS personnel.ĪCCIDENT & EMERGENCY MEDICINE HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION & MANAGEMENT PUBLIC HEALTH. Age, gender, day of the week and time of the day were not associated with on-scene times over 30 min. In multivariable logistic regression, the number of phone calls to hospitals from EMS personnel, intoxication, minor disease and geographical area were associated with on-scene times over 30 min. There was a strong correlation between on-scene time and the number of phone calls to hospitals from emergency medical service (EMS) personnel (p<0.001). The median on-scene time for all patients was 17 min (IQR 13-23). On-scene time during ambulance transportation for critical emergency patients.
The participants in this study were all critical patients (age ≥ 15 years) who were transported by ambulance between April 2010 and March 2013 (N=11,585). Kawasaki City, Japan's eighth largest city. We aimed to investigate the factors related to prolonged on-scene times, which were defined as being over 30 min, during ambulance transportation for critical emergency patients in the context of a large Japanese city.
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