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NYPD Creates Fake Social Media Profiles To Track Loud Parties, Underage Drinking

v3rgEz writes Is that Facebook friend request from the cute girl in third period, or an undercover officer looking to bust up the next high shool kegger? That's the question more students in New York City might be asking, as newly released documents from the NYPD disclose its process for agents creating undercover social media aliases with the aims of uprooting terrorist plots, tracking "political activity," and other nefarious crimes like underage drinking or pre-meditated loud partying. Fake profiles must be approved by bureau brass, unless it would "seriously impair" an investigation or risk life or property damage.

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  1. Re:Uh, don't post... by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Get a group of people together to create fake "we're having a party at X's place at YPM", where X is a cop at another precinct.
    2. Post videos of the Swatting on YouTube.
    3. PROFIT!!!

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  2. Re:They have nothing else more important to do? by Bob_Who · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some of us want to pepper a whore's cunt with cocaine and ride her up and
    down that imaginary line between bathroom and bed while listening to Death
    Metal that is so mind-blowingly loud, it is warping the hood of your prius
    that is parked outside. Then we get drunk, then all of our friends come over
    for more of the same. We scream, we fight, we fuck, we get so high from pills
    and powders, snorting and taking a hit off of the mystery pipe until fucking 5am
    in the morning. That's when we're out in front of the house pissing our bladders
    empty and calling you names before we head to a diner for bacon & eggs!

    I am sorry if that somehow takes away from your weekend of smoking weed
    and playing on your playstation followed by spells of intense masturbation.
    But again, some people have lives, even when you don't.

    ...Easy for you to say on a cop's salary.

  3. Re:Uh, don't post... by slashdot_commentator · · Score: 3, Funny

    The NYPD does this to islamic prayer groups, why wouldn't they do it to teenagers?

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