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The all black vehicle with tinted windows has the Citizen logo emblazoned across its side, as well as Citizen's tagline "Making your world a safer place" and the phrase "Private Patrol."When asked what these vehicles were for, how many Citizen has, and in which cities, a Citizen spokesperson told Motherboard in an email "There is one vehicle in LA (no other cities) and it's a pilot program for our employees." The spokesperson repeatedly declined to say what the vehicles are specifically for, be that gathering information, verifying reports, or something else.Do you work at Citizen? Do you have access to internal Citizen documents? We’d love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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