The Chirps (Messages)
The Chirps is where Sweep pins become people. Ordinary chat sits alongside a dedicated Recovery flow — anonymous by default, meeting only at public Safe Havens, with disputes, stolen-item handling, and police/insurance exports built in for when a handoff doesn't go cleanly.
Best on a larger screen: the side-by-side view shows every annotation at once.
A dedicated tab keeps active recoveries apart from ordinary chat, badged with a live count.
The default view is just messages — recovery only takes over once something's actually in motion.
Switch into multi-select to read, mute, archive, or delete several conversations together, instead of one at a time.
Finders stay anonymous by default — an identity-private badge, a linked item card, and a clear notice that recovery has started.
A thread opened from a Map reply arrives already carrying the item, the finder's name, and what's already been said.
Propose a Safe Haven and a time — never your home address — with nearby options ranked by walking time.
Once set, the meetup stays visible in-thread with a mini-map, directions, and an arrival button — no digging for details.
Arriving at the Safe Haven notifies the other side and reiterates that identities stay private through the handoff.
A single confirm closes the loop — with an equally visible way out if the item wasn't actually returned.
Confirmed recovered, moved to Resolved in the Vault, and an optional anonymous thank-you before the thread wraps.
Raising a dispute starts with a reason — not returned, wrong item, damaged, or felt unsafe — before anything else happens.
Once raised, the dispute sits directly in the thread as its own state — not buried in a settings page.
Civic Radar timestamps both sides' accounts without deciding who's right — evidence for a claim, not a ruling.
Marking an item stolen changes the thread itself — meeting in person is discouraged, and Freeze & Report takes over.
Freezing stops the item from being re-registered while a police report gets prepared from the timestamped record.
Export starts by asking what it's for — a single packet can cover both a police report and an insurance claim.
The incident details step pre-fills from what Civic Radar already logged — location, timing, evidence — instead of starting blank.
The finished file ships with a verifiable case ID — downloadable, shareable by link, or sent straight to a recipient.
Starting a new Chirp separates real contacts from nearby neighbours you haven't connected with yet.
Neighbours outside your contacts get one message in — accepting or declining decides if there's a second.