The online audience can monitor their neighborhood by RSS feed, a valuable resource for neighbors, legal professionals, and community organizers.

This community can tag witness testimony and connect them into incidents. Incidents provide a space for the community to provide feedback and support for a victim. For example:

• A neighbor can mark that they’ve seen the witness testimony and offer their sympathy.
• An attorney can announce that they are addressing the incident and request more information.
• A community organizer can rally a group around a series of incidents.
• An advocate can collect statistics for policy reform.

Having all this information accessible from one site offers tremendous potential. A neighborhood looking to keep its streets safe for children, for instance, can use the system instead of involving a slow or dysfunctional criminal justice system. Neighbors can track posts by other neighbors and gather as a community to address an issue.

I Am Your Witness will maintain its integrity and protect the community from abuse using the same techniques employed by Craigslist, Ebay, YouTube, and countless other web services. Online communities have proven they can proactively flag abuse and spam to keep things safe and useful.