Training Cops To Use Social Media Information 51
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."
Status update (Score:5, Funny)
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Don't forget the Huggies, and whatever cash they've got.
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The really sad part, that's not a joke. I work for a county Sheriff. The gang, detective, and child porn units regularly peruse Facebook/MySpace/et al. There are lots of idiots out there who do things like video tape themselves committing crimes and then post them online.
As they say, if they were smart, they wouldn't get caught.
Only old people ... (Score:3)
Only old people use facebook. Wasn't it just a few years ago that only old people used email? Or was that in the context of texting? Can't remember -- I'm just getting too old for everything I guess.
Re:Only old people ... (Score:4, Insightful)
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!
Depends... (Score:2)
Does the local donut shop have wifi?
Training Cops To Use Social Media Information... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Training Cops To Use Social Media Information.. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Young suspects on Twitter, older folks on Facebook (Score:5, Funny)
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What's the number to your BBS? [grin]
Hire me! (Score:2)
And don't forget, kids (Score:1)
You already ARE a suspect... I mean, if you weren't, nobody would be tracking you, right?
You have the Right to Remain Silent (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:You have the Right to Remain Silent (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:And don't forget, kids (Score:4, Insightful)
To a cop, there are five kinds of people: cops, family of cops, judges and politicians, and suspects.
Re:but when the Public tracks the cops... (Score:1)
...they get beat-up and their cameras get destroyed. http://www.photographyisntacrime.com/ [photograph...acrime.com]
What kind of training do cops need? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What kind of training do cops need? (Score:4, Informative)
Before anybosy mods this guy down, read this [illinoistimes.com] newspaper article from yesterday and you'll see why an awful lot of folks loathe and fear cops.
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"In her lawsuit, Janssen says that an internal affairs investigator for the department told her that deputies often have sex while on duty and that the department would have virtually no deputies left if they were fired for having sex during work hours." -TFA
It sounds like the solution is to "have virtually no deputies left," then, until they start getting applicants that can follow their department rules and the laws they're supposed to be enforcing. If that doesn't happen, we're likely better off redirect
facebook == stasi (Score:1)
stop hurting yourself, leave
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No. Abstaining from social networking makes you suspicious.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/ [forbes.com]
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Son, you sound like a terrorist.
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Son, you sound like a terrorist.
Of course, one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
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I have no facebook account. I make up for it with a LinkedIn account that doesn't say anything not already available via Google.
The alternative, of course, is to maintain a few vanity Facebook accounts with your name, but stuffed with all sorts of information that is provably not about you. You can then under oath claim that all of these accounts belong to you, and none of it will ever hold up as evidence in court.
Training cops (Score:3)
Did anyone else picture some cops performing for donuts?
Social media is easy (Score:3)
Social media is pretty easy.
1. Make coffee.
2. Log in.
3. Click on LOLcat.
4. Click on Derpy-looking kid.
5. Mouse-over raging liberal link to some stupid blog suggesting an undercover cover up.
6. Click on Rage comic.
7. Click on link to semi-interested article. Read two paragraphs, then
8. Click on bikini pic in the sidebar.
9. Goto 1.
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refactoring a system of gross inequality...biblical retribution
Think of the latter as a step along the way to the former
The new social media is biometrics.. (Score:4, Interesting)
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 [youtube.com] -- 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.
I do not exist. (Score:2, Funny)
I have no Facebook, no twitter acc, no myspace, no g+, no iTunes, no cellphone... I am safe!
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You just posted on Slashdot. Your IP is logged on a US server. I sure hope for your sake that the next hop on your encrypted proxy tunnel ride goes through somewhere like North Korea....
I am not here (Score:1)