Cops Walking the MySpace Beat

theodp writes "Meet the point-and-click police. Newsweek reports that a growing number of ordinary officers are working a new beat, turning to MySpace to collect clues and crack offline cases. Most of the nabbed wrongdoers have been victims of their own hubris, like the two boys who uploaded video of themselves firebombing an abandoned airplane hangar earlier this month."

Comments

This kind of news exposes the bigger problem...

[HellYeahAutomaton]

The problem isn't just that all of the derelicts and sex offenders are attracted to MySpace like bugs to a light, it is that gratuitous adolescent self-promotion is fostered there.

Sites like MySpace are effectively amplifiers for your garden variety attention whores.

Re:Disappointment..

[TheCarp]

you could just do what I do and stop giving a shit what people think.

Its your laptop, you have every right to have "White Power" blaring out of the speakers whenever you please. No reason to be ashamed you fucking racist.

-Steve