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Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters

Posted by timothy on from the hey-you-two-get-a-mask dept.

Fudge Factor 3000 writes "The Canucks' loss in the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals resulted in complete mayhem in downtown Vancouver. Everything from upturned cars set alight to looting was commonplace. Unfortunately, most of the perpetrators were able to maintain their anonymity by disappearing into the crowds. Fortunately, bystanders took several pictures and videos of the carnage. Now, websites (including both Facebook and Tumblr) have set up pages to use crowdsourcing to identify the hooligans."

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  1. Re:Wow by couchslug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Jock sniffers worldwide are stupid and violent, but sports distract them from interfering anywhere else.

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  2. Just for rioting? Seriously? by RobinEggs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather not 'crowdsource' the manhunt for perpetrators of isolated property crimes. I'd bet the vast majority of these people have no criminal record and that almost nobody did anything violent during these riots. It's not worth setting a precedent that we'll all analyze video for the police merely to get justice for a few totaled cars.

    It reminds me a little of the "lets all open our windows and see if we can spot the fleeing criminal" scene in Fahrenheit 451. I'm not helping the police find anyone short of a murderer or rapist through video coverage, if even then.

    1. Re:Just for rioting? Seriously? by RobinEggs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      People willing to *kill* for the sake of their property are, in fact, much worse than people who would smash it for no reason. And thank you for being the 10th person in this discussion to tell me to fuck myself. That was the magic number; I now concede that all of you are completely reasonable people and I'm just a random asshole who values human life, and being careful about precedent and chain of custody, in law enforcement more than televisions, police cars and prosecuting mob violence.

      Knock it off with the straw men and shelve the insults. Only willful misinterpretation could lead you to believe that I'm fine and dandy with vandalism and beating people on the street. I simply believe that this manner of searching for suspects could change the way we procure evidence and the way we determine guilt in ways that are more damaging to our society than a single riot, however major, ever could be.