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Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts
Boston Police, according to an article at Slate, are engaging in a strange use of social media to fight crime. Or at least, to stop raucous music from disturbing the city. As the Slate writer says, "While police departments have been using social media to investigate for years, its use in such seemingly trivial crimes would be rather chilling, if these efforts didn’t seem so laughably inept."
It's a lot easier to get paid to sit at a desk and troll Facebook all day.
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
OK, I can see why cops go undercover to prevent murders and bank robberies and such, but to head off noise complaints? Is there some reason why simply to responding to noise complaints isn't enough? Are there no longer any murders, rapes, and robberies in Boston to investigate or prevent? What a waste.
These are the chuckleheads who found lite-brites with pictures of Mooninites (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) around the city, and treated them like some kind of nuclear bomb with a ticking clock.
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Clearly, you're a cop trolling here. Nobody on Slashdot reads the articles.
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just leaving it on 24/7. I guess she just wants to screw around with the Big Brother system they have since they can see how many hours freecell or a browser has been online - so if they start complaining she can say that they should pay for the overtime since according to their calculations she has worked 12 years in the past 3(totalling the time for office, freecell and couple of other windows that have been open 24/7).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.