Social Media
Building relationships with the media ahead of major incidents helps LE agencies share their narrative
Citizens want access to government services anywhere, any time and on any device
Video of a traffic stop by a Kentucky crime interdiction team has generated close to a million views, negative headlines and lots of online chatter
Budgets are tight at agencies around the country, but pretend money isn’t an issue
Manhattan prosecutor wants to subpoena tweets sent by a demonstrator facing a disorderly conduct charge
Police began posting arrest logs on the department’s website in November and are now taking online initatives several steps further
More than a dozen LGBT officers and dispatchers appeared in the 8 1/2-minute video released Friday, part of an effort to curb teen suicide
A video poking fun at the mishap is set to the same song hacker group ‘Anonymous’ put on the site in the meantime
A former law enforcement officer submitted a video that was voted the number one question Obama should answer in a live-streamed video chat scheduled for Monday evening
Training book: Gang members communicate on the Web about shooting at police officers
The Secret Service will investigate the photo, which has been removed from Facebook but can be found on other sites
There have been occasions right here on Police1 that a comment has been posted we felt might be harmful to the person posting — we delete those whenever we find them
Anonymous explained via Twitter that the attack was in retaliation for the FBI’s crackdown on Megaupload.com, alleged to be a source of online piracy
Police in Utah arrested Troy Reed Critchfield, 33, and booked him into jail Saturday for investigation of charges including aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy
A woman called police after seeing a chilling Facebook posting
Internal affairs detectives are interviewing officers under oath and getting subpoenas for computer records
Members of the group say they posted officers’ home addreses and names of their children
The New York Times said it obtained a copy of postings made on the Facebook page, titled “No More West Indian Day Detail”
Forays into social media manage to nab criminals in unexpected ways
A vigilante trio of teenagers filmed encounters with sexual predators
Citizen activist Jimmy Justice’s goal is ‘exposing police misconduct’
The video pokes fun at police harassment
Crime reduction officer: Tips obvious, but surprising how people forget
Police in New Jersey say that YouTube has helped them solve three recent cases
Hillary Adams, now 23, posted the 8-minute clip on YouTube last week that shows her father viciously lashing her with a belt
YouTube video posted by daughter shows Judge William Adams whipping her with belt
Sussex Police broadly aims to broadcast the challenges its officers and staff face
Google rejected two requests to take down videos that may have defamed police
As they’re about to be arrested, users can hit one button and alert everyone on their list
Deputy commissioner Ross Barnett held an amusing press conference after a mock alert was sent out
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