Peace commission considers Twelve Watch App

The Golden Valley Police Employment, Accountability & Community Engagement (PEACE) Commission met June 13 and heard from a guest speaker about the Twelve Watch App, a new tool designed to improve safety.

The mission for the app is “to advance police reform and accountability by empowering the citizens.” For $4.99 per month, people can subscribe to an app designed to record encounters with police, alert friends and family and store data about police officers. A city or police department might be able to have a different rate.

“Twelve Watch gives subscribers the ability to identify officers who can be a threat to their safety before having an encounter with those officers,” according to the app’s website. “With our 12 point system, we are creating a database in precincts around the country that will give citizens the knowledge of how the police are policing where they live, where they are traveling too, along with the ability to record encounters with themselves and other citizens. Family and friends will be able to know if their love ones are being treated fairly in those encounters with this app and if not, they will be able to use the recordings for court proceedings.”

The app is slated to launch this month. For more information, visit twelvewatchapp.com.