Curious about how people use Seattle’s Find It, Fix It smartphone app, FYI Guy digs into more than 230,000 requests for service.

Seattle’s Find it, Fix it app might not look like a race-driven self-policing apparatus, but it helps promulgate similar outcomes. Race has long served as a hidden rationale for policing in America.

Two years ago, there was a backlog of 10,000 requests made through Find It Fix It. Washington said that improved last year when 41,000 customer service requests were responded to in less than ...