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  "id": 4669313,
  "title": "These Founders Built a Local Crime Newsletter. Then Police Departments Revealed the Bigger Business",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/these-founders-built-a-local-crime-newsletter-then-police-departments",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T16:02:55.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.inc.com/soren-kaplan/these-founders-built-a-local-crime-newsletter-then-police-departments-revealed-the-bigger-business/91398035"
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  "summary": "Civic Informer grew from a local crime newsletter into a public safety platform by using its demo to uncover what police departments needed most.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}