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Originally Posted by glowrock
Lastly, the citizen app is a complete disaster, it's only purpose is to make everyone paranoid of their own shadows. Hyper focus on every instance of crime will turn people into psychos! I'd citizen based here or something? I've never lived in a city where everyone bashes their own city with such reckless abandon as I have here! It's as if everyone takes pride in referring to their city as a shithole. Honestly it's pretty sad.  |
This! I've lived in other major cities (NYC, DC, and Houston) and had never heard of Citizen until moving to Chicago, and boy what a mess it is. It's more harmful than helpful in my opinion, especially with the unverified crime reports.
In my short time here, I've noticed just how obsessive the community is over every little crime that happens. In sharp contrast to my last home, Houston, I'd hear about many (and unfortunately experience) crimes from friends and neighbors that never made the local news, including some shootings. While going to the other extreme isn't good, there definitely needs to be more balance in Chicago when it comes to reporting crime. As others have shown, we can acknowledge that there are crime issues in the city as well as understanding the city isn't the warzone/nightmare so many make it out to be.