Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt for the wrong person
&gt; “Let’s find this guy, activate safety network completely,” Frame wrote, according to screenshots of internal Slack messages obtained by The Verge. “This is a great transition of Citizen back to active safety. We are not a news company. We are safety and we make this sort of heinous crime impossible to escape from. That needs to be our mindset.” The bounty was later raised to $30,000.<p>&gt; However Frame first saw the false identification, the Slack messages show he saw it as an “opportunity” for Citizen to fulfill its “true mission.”<p>&gt; “We know the guy is out there,” said one host, according to Castle. “We need our users to get out there and bring this guy to justice.”<p>&gt; And while Citizen said it plans to get it right next time, Frame suggested in a Slack message that it won’t be the last time Citizen offers a cash reward. “We need to build this into the product and we will,” he wrote.<p>These are scary quotes. The Citizen [app] CEO apparently wants to reframe their company as some sort of vigilante justice machine instead of a simple crime alert app. And he&#x27;s willing to throw money at it. Of course their first push for vigilante justice is against the wrong person.<p>Given that The Verge has obtained company Slack transcripts, I assume some of the employees are pushing back from the inside. Let&#x27;s hope the employees continue fighting against this.