Friday, December 20, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Amount socail media is used
"According to a survey by the International Association of Chiefs of Police of 600 agencies, more than
These statistics taken from an article on wpxi.com strike me as staggering. Before I researched more into the connections of social media and police I wouldn't have even put the two together. Through my research I have found that not only is social media a benefit to police investigations, but it is one of the main resources police use.
In an age that is completely absorbed in electronics I have come to have a renewed caution in what I present about myself on the internet. I feel almost as if I'm being watched and that only makes me feel more responsible for my actions.
These statistics taken from an article on wpxi.com strike me as staggering. Before I researched more into the connections of social media and police I wouldn't have even put the two together. Through my research I have found that not only is social media a benefit to police investigations, but it is one of the main resources police use.
In an age that is completely absorbed in electronics I have come to have a renewed caution in what I present about myself on the internet. I feel almost as if I'm being watched and that only makes me feel more responsible for my actions.
facial recognition
So previously in trying to solve crimes and finding people the police would put up wanted posters. Now they can find people via facial recognition on any social media website or facial recognition on videos to identify people.
Facebook uses facial recognition to identify people to tag them in the photo making the polices job much easier.
In Pittsburg "Southwest Regional Police Chief John Hartman points to a case where surveillance cameras at a Union Township Dairy Queen captured a man stealing a donation jar for the Children's Miracle Network.
The video was posted on the department's Facebook page, and within hours, tipsters identified and police charged Patrick Hufnagel on suspicion of the crime."
Police Chief John Hartman says he uses social media in almost every case they have.
Facebook uses facial recognition to identify people to tag them in the photo making the polices job much easier.
In Pittsburg "Southwest Regional Police Chief John Hartman points to a case where surveillance cameras at a Union Township Dairy Queen captured a man stealing a donation jar for the Children's Miracle Network.
The video was posted on the department's Facebook page, and within hours, tipsters identified and police charged Patrick Hufnagel on suspicion of the crime."
Police Chief John Hartman says he uses social media in almost every case they have.
articles I used
Kelly, Heather. "Police Embrace
Social Media as Crime-fighting Tool." CNN. Cable News
Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 13 Dec. 2013.
<http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/30/tech/social-media/fighting-crime-social-media/>.
Helmer, William J., and Rick Mattix.
Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past, 1919-1940. New York:
Facts on File, 1998. Print.
"How Police Are Using Social
Media Sites to Solve Crimes." Pittsburgh News, Weather,
Traffic, Sports. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.
<http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/how-police-are-using-social-media-sites-solve-crim/nbmjG/>.
Is it constitutional
One thing that people try to throw at police is that the way they got the information to convict them was unconstitutional. In my opinion which leans to guilty until proven innocent thinks that it shouldn't matter how the information was obtained.
That being said the court system has the complete opposite opinion of myself. They see it as innocent until proven guilty and it does matter how the information was acquired. Although we have differing opinions one thing that I think the court does an alright job in doing is interpreting the constitution.
In the case of Colon, the alleged gang member, his attorneys claimed his Facebook posts were protected under the Fourth Amendment, which shields people's homes and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. But a federal judge disagreed, saying Colon forfeited any expectation of privacy when he shared online postings with friends.
That being said the court system has the complete opposite opinion of myself. They see it as innocent until proven guilty and it does matter how the information was acquired. Although we have differing opinions one thing that I think the court does an alright job in doing is interpreting the constitution.
In the case of Colon, the alleged gang member, his attorneys claimed his Facebook posts were protected under the Fourth Amendment, which shields people's homes and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. But a federal judge disagreed, saying Colon forfeited any expectation of privacy when he shared online postings with friends.
In other words, the
online world is just like the offline world in many respects: Your
friends can inform on you to police, and detectives can go undercover to
catch you in the act.
In some cases police get caught by the fact their evidence was recovered unconstitutionally, which makes the evidence inadmissible and causes the police to either scramble or have no case at all allowing the criminals to get away with the charges.
The moral of the story is to be careful how you do things officers.
The moral of the story is to be careful how you do things officers.
play and post
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.
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.
how its evolved
In
Public Enemies: America's
Criminal Past, 1919-1940 by
Helmer, William J., and Rick Mattix they talk about how the United States evolved from cops and robbers to the fbi vs the old day gangsters.
One thing that I found that was interesting was that there seems to be times that criminals evolve and the police are just behind them. As the technology of the criminals evolves so does the polices strategies for solving the cases.
When most people think of technology they think of the internet and electronics, but the thing that has impacted the early evolution of technology was the Tommy Gun. The Tommy gun was the first true technological advantage that criminals had over the police. We don't see similar advantages over the police today due to the fact that police look ahead to things that are developing to prepare so they can prepare for them.
Advancements in technology are the main things that cause a change in the police and criminal altercations.
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