Crime Alerts Come to Brazilian Waze, Just in Time for the Olympics On Wednesday, just in time for the Olympics, the company will release Crime Risk Alerts in Rio. Here’s how it works: If a user enters an address in one of the 25 areas Waze identifies “high crime,” they’ll see an alert on their screen. “Caution,” it will read, a red exclamation mark hovering above. “This destination is an area with a higher chance of crime.” Users will also get an alert if they happen to drive through one of these areas on their way somewhere else. These locations are areas with higher-than-average homicide, car robbery, or drug trafficking rates. They’ve been identified by data sources, and corroborated by researchers and Waze map editors on the ground. See http://ift.tt/2aEcdHV
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