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Training Cops To Use Social Media Information
jfruh writes "Cynthia Navarro starts her sessions training police to mine social media in dramatic fashion: by quickly finding data about the officers themselves. She also provides information about who's where online — for instance, younger suspects will probably be focused on Twitter, while older folks are on Facebook or even MySpace. 'How much information can be gathered? Look no further than the 2011 Stanley Cup Riots in Vancouver, BC. By examining hours of video and social media posts made during the event, a taskforce was able to post pictures of over 100 suspected rioters online — over 30 of which were identified by police.' It's all part of a drive to teach even nontechnical police officers at small and midsized departments how to use social media to track suspects."
Robbing the Exxon at 35 and north street. :)))))))))))))))) Totally gonna get a burrito too.
for the following objective: to find the anonymous guy who's posting phone cams that catch police in the act of police brutality?
Damn, and I've been wondering why nobody's called my BBS in 20 years.
:wq
They are already the most effective street thugs and panty sniffers in society. They don't need the help of social media.
I don't think any of the young people I know are even aware of what twitter is. Hope the police didn't pay too much for the training!
there is a reason this is listed BEFORE You Have the Right to an attorney.
Just remember kids Anything You say^HPost can be held against you in a Court Of Law.
Any person using FTFY or editing my postings agrees to a US$50.00 charge
scroll down the facebook just far enough to establish the individual has committed a crime, but not so far as to reveal the underlying socio-economic factors that precipitated the crime. refactoring a system of gross inequality is harder than biblical retribution, and it means we dont fill as many prisons.
Good people go to bed earlier.
With cameras at every turn reading faces and ears, and pre-crime detectors strewn about public places, the biggest social outlet there is will soon be fed live and directly into their hands. Courtesy of the DHS, we already have talking, listening, spying, interactive street-lights, as well as harebrained projects like FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technology), and backscatter gangsters strolling around.
An interesting presentation by cryptome on mis-managing the ultimate social media (my take), society itself (in N.Y.), can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yn8oy9NHag4#!l -- It's worth a watch or listen.
I guess f-book and such are still pretty sweet honey pots, but I think such duties will soon be automated enough to allow the average officer to comfortably return to their sticks and pepper-spray without having to endure IT 101.
Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
To a cop, there are five kinds of people: cops, family of cops, judges and politicians, and suspects.
Free Martian Whores!
Exactly. Before training doughnut-munchers to troll twitter and facebook for information on criminal activities, how about we spend those time and resources educating them on constitutional basics so that they violate those of the people they protect less often? Cops aren't lawyers. Their job is to just sort of enforce laws with blunt-force and let someone else sort things out, later. But imagine if they were educated just a little bit about the constitution? (Cops know nearly nothing about the constitution or the law, hence why they so easily and frequently and STUPIDLY violate it on a daily basis). Give them anything more complicated than giving out parking tickets or responding to a break-in and they're like my dog trying to comprehend string-theory.