Why a safety app earns its place on your phone
Most safety tools only help once something has already gone wrong. The useful question is what changes in the twenty minutes before that — and what an app can honestly do about it.
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Where our crime data comes from — and what it cannot tell you
Our map is built on the UK police open data feed. Here is exactly what that data contains, how precise it really is, and the things it cannot tell you — including why a pin is never someone’s front door.
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What Safety App UK actually does
Safety apps are usually described in vague language. Here is the concrete version: what happens before you set off, while you are walking, and if something goes wrong.