A community safety system, comprising a notification management entity comprising one or more servers, the notification management entity is communicatively coupled to a one or more user devices and one or more administrator devices; a plurality of registered users, wherein each registered user of the plurality of registered users is associated with a user category of a set of user categories; the notification management entity maintaining a list of the plurality of registered users and each registered user's associated user category; and a community safety system application operating on each of the one or more user devices and the one or more administrator devices; wherein at least one of the one or more administrator devices is associated with a police department.