
Helicopters, a patrol car and virtual bodyguards: Inside Citizen's scattered push to upend public safety
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Well before Citizen, a controversial real-time crime alerting app, raised eyebrows by testing a company-branded patrol car on the streets of Los Angeles, the startup's CEO teased an even more striking idea for a private security force: helicopters.
Citizen founder and CEO Andrew Frame frequently threw out the concept during internal meetings of a helicopter or hover craft one day extracting a Citizen user from a dangerous situation, according to two former employees who heard Frame say this but said they didn't think the idea was a serious one. One of the former employees, who worked on research and development and said they'd heard Frame say this at a town hall event, told CNN Business the concept felt "abstract," chalking it up to a CEO with a "head in the clouds vision of the future."More Related News

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