Something that makes me proud is that the city of Cincinnati is one of the pioneers in gathering public data. Police dismantled a local street gang and arrested 71 people in 2008 following a large nine-month investigation that used social media to identify key members.
Collaborating with the University of Cincinnati Institute of Crime Science,
the police created databases of information scraped from social
networks, existing police records and phone records, then used software
to analyze the data and establish links between suspects.
One thing that benefits the police is play then post mentality that young people have these days. Meaning they do what they do in this case commit a crime and then post about what happened or how they are feeling at the time. This gives police a helpful hand in many cases.
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