Social Media
Law enforcement must move from box-checking to strategic thinking when it comes to communicating with the community
What is different about current anti-LE sentiments is that the conversation is being held online. Does your agency’s communication strategy reflect that new reality?
Understanding the legal precedent behind free speech rights and how they apply on and off duty
18-year-old Devon Coley was arraigned Monday on a charge of making a terroristic threat
Big-city PDs and union leaders nationwide are warning the rank and file to wear body armor after a deadly ambush against police
Paramedic posted Instagram a photo of two black men pointing handguns at a white police officer under the caption: “Our real enemy”
In the tweets, officer said he would kill anyone who threatens him or his family and that he would be off-duty at the movies with his gun if anyone “feels they can’t breathe or their lives matter”
Aaron Hodges suggested killing a white officer for every black man killed by police
With police videos increasingly becoming subject to public disclosure, Seattle police are anxious to develop a fast — and inexpensive — way to go through a growing mountain of material and redact sensitive images
The first step is thinking about what changes you want; the second is discovering how to make them happen
While standing behind the officer, CHP officials also revealed they have created phony Twitter accounts and dressed like demonstrators to do surveillance
Several websites for the city of Oakland were knocked out in a likely cyberattack
Community members are either rallying for or against two LEOs fired for comments made on a heated social media post
Unlike popular social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, Nextdoor is a virtual neighborhood watch social media platform for specific neighborhoods
Video captured the aftermath of the fatal shooting by officers who responded to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon
In private and on Internet chat rooms, officers say they feel demoralized, misunderstood and “all alone”
Chief is limiting his officers’ social media use after a precinct’s Facebook page linked the dangers of toy guns to the fatal police shooting of an Ohio boy
Police arrested 46-year-old Jaleel Tariq Abdul-Jabbaar after a string of death threats made over Facebook that stretched back to shortly after the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown
Police in Houston arrested two teens for damaging a home after linking them to video posted on the popular messaging app
Advising military members and police to review their social media accounts to avoid posts that might attract attention from the Islamic State
For more than four decades, the Supreme Court has said that “true threats” to harm another person are not protected speech under the First Amendment
Daniel White was the victim of a crime and had been beaten so badly that his hearing aids were nowhere to be found
Cellphone, logged into a man’s Facebook account, featured a news photo of the crime scene as the background screen
Unlike other types of social media, people on Nextdoor.com only have access to forums for people who live by them
Close to 200 law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada are now using the MyPD app
Person filed a public records request for all available footage, a task one PD says will take years to complete
For 11 years, Eduardo Rodriguez was one of LA’s most wanted fugitives, an alleged Toonerville street gang member accused of killing four people
Man posted an image on Facebook from his personal account depicting a dead officer with the caption, “This is what a good cop looks like”
Man surrendered in Oregon after police say he killed his girlfriend, posted grusome photos of her body online, and wrote that he wanted police to kill him
Police said they found three crude, homemade explosive devices and a gun at the 16-year-old’s home
