Facebook and Twitter Helping Local Authorities Fight Crime
Social networks are a great place to get together and speak with old friends as well as make new friends. However, networks such as Twitter and Facebook are actually being put into the limelight again, this time for assisting with tracking down criminals. In fact, police are finding it extremely easy to catch people who are disobeying the law by tracking people’s activities via social networks.
In fact, there has been one reported instance where a criminal was caught who had just committed burglary upon a residence. While the criminal was engaged in robbing this home, he suddenly simply had to check his FaceBook page. The burglar actually logged onto the home computer at the house that he was robbing from.
The burglar inputted his log in information and forgot to log out after he was done. His login information was found by the owners of the premises and was the main thing that was used to put him behind bars for his crime. Talk about a time when it would have been a good idea to wait until you got home.
FaceBook in particular is one social media website that has been gaining a lot of attention for its qualities for ensuring that people that break the law are put behind bars. In fact, the secret service was able to bust a man that was hiding out in Mexico that had committed a serious case of bank fraud because he avidly boasted about his accomplishments on his FaceBook page.
Both the Los Angeles and Boston Police departments have been avidly utilizing social networks to assist them with solving crimes and also helping them eliminate the chances of a crime occurring. The Los Angeles police department has used social media sites to help alert them about break ins that were going to happen to celebrity homes and things of that nature. It’s amazing how close a social networking community can actually become.
The Boston Police department has been avidly utilizing Twitter to assist them with criminal activities. Officers are avidly communicating with people around the area about awareness issues that they need to be made aware of. They have even set up a website that will assist people in catching criminals who steal bikes.
You simply register your stolen bike with the department through their Twitter or FaceBook page and report any suspicious activities regarding stolen bikes that you have seen. As everyone knows, stolen bikes are hard to get back, however with social networks assisting the Boston PD there are a lot of kids that are ecstatic that their bikes were actually able to recovered.
Social media sites have become a big part of a lot of people’s lives. Now, these networks are even being used by the police to help catch the bad guys.
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ITs pretty nice how social media fits into the whole scheme of things, fighting crime, posting emergency info, etc..
I was so happy to hear when they got the facebook guy Craig ‘Lazie’ Lynch, he kept taunting the cops with his is FB account, what a moron.
It’s a good thing, I am with mark that guy was a jackal.