Social Media
The rapid movement of the killer from one scene to the next made the attacks incredibly disorienting and highly complicated the police response
Protecting youths from cyberbullying and exploitation requires a concerted effort by parents, law enforcement, schools and the community
Officers took to social media to share their suffering and take digs at each other
The Onion tweets and article spoke of congressional leaders “brandishing shotguns and semiautomatic pistols”
Social networks can be used to plan violence and other criminal activities
Deprived of her phone, woman used her computer to report the crime
Prosecutors say a student promised a Virginia Tech-style shooting
Authorities noticed a Facebook post by a man boasting about eluding officers
Facebook, Twitter are also part of their social media strategy aimed at greater community engagement
Defining privacy, blending policing with social media, and embracing the changing nature of information
Twitter, Facebook units will scour social media sites for wrongdoing
University police are adding an emergency situation mobile application that streams audio and video
The Tucson Police Department has uploaded videos of collision to educate the public
Leverage the Internet to search beyond just “status updates” and messages — look for images, photographs, and captions, especially on Facebook, Twitpic and Flickr
‘Catch me if you can. I’m in Brooklyn,’ read the page
A friend in Calif. saw a distraught post and alerted Pa. cops
Video ‘intended to be informative,’ said police spokesman
Facebook regularly pushes back against law-enforcement “fishing expeditions,” said a spokesperson
Calif. legislation would allow cell phone evidence even if officers extracted the information without asking a judge
Memphis officer Timothy Warren posted a video to YouTube in the months before he was fatally shot
Rochester police officers involved in the arrest of activist Emily Good, who filmed a traffic stop and posted the video online, have had threats made against them
‘Find my iPhone’ and others could make it difficult to collect evidence from a suspect’s cell phone
Police Chief James Sheppard said facts didn’t support the charge
OpenWatch bills itself as “a counter-surveillance using cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures”
Rochester PD is investigating the arrest of Emily Good after she refused to go inside and stop filming
Police refused to comment about explosive device, then launched communication using hashtag #watfordbomb
Father of two-year-old alleges ex-wife and boyfriend abused girl, seeks custody
Sisters of man arrested in Colo. delete page that falsely accused cops of “severely” beating him
Co-workers’ complaints cited along with online anti-Obama comments
Facebook will use PhotoDNA, an image analysis technology co-invented by Microsoft, to scan all images uploaded to site
Officer Philip Chlanda was distraught after girlfriend’s Facebook posts indicated she may have been seeing someone else
Crude list ranked girls at Oak River High School by their sexual characteristics and behaviors
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