E1117 Next Unicorns E20: Citizen's Andrew Frame on reforming policing via transparency & more

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Show notes:

0:00 Start

1:12 Jason intros Citizen CEO Andrew Frame, what does Citizen do & how did they originally get to market?

6:09 Did Citizen face resistance from police departments & local governments? What are examples of how public access to police scanner data could harm people?

11:24 OurCrowd - Sign up for a free account at https://www.ourcrowd.com/twist

13:17 Creating better policing, organizing the transparency movement via live streams

20:24 Should body cameras be mandated for all police officers? Reforming dispatching

23:29 Outgrow - Get a 30-day free trial and a $250 credit at https://outgrow.co/twist

24:40 Who is Cure Violence, what do they do & how does Citizen aid them?

30:47 Citizen's liability

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35:10 How will Citizen monetize? Will they ever share public aggregate data or will they stick to real-time data that disappears after the incident ends?

41:32 Citizen's rapid expansion in San Francisco, adding SafePass for COVID tracking

46:12 Helping start a change in policing

52:31 Technology replacing government

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