RedZone is a GPS-driven, real-time crime and navigation map app that uses geo-fencing technology to combine real-time crime data and seamless GPS navigation. It is “the world’s only navigation app that provides travelers with location-based crime data that is sourced from government agencies, coupled with first-hand reports by a community of active users.”
RedZone analyzes all relevant crime data between users and their desired location to help give users the safest travel options. The app enables users to report the occurrences of thefts, assaults, and shootings, among other public safety concerns, actively. This then allows RedZone to identify “red zones”- concentrations of highly reported crime in an area – and to give users cautionary commuter alerts. RedZone also utilizes a transparent incident feed where users post comments and upload media for the rest of the community to see.
For more information, visit their website at http://www.redzonemap.com/
Written by Kathleen Emerson 4/13/16
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