Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Role Of Social Media Law Enforcement

Donald, J. (2013). Primary. In Use of social media and smartphone applications for reporting suspicious and criminal activities to mass transit law enforcement agencies (p. 118). Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School.

Link: http://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/38918/13Dec_Donald_Jennifer.pdf?sequence=1

In Role of Social Media in Law Enforcement Significant and Growing by Jennifer S. Donald, Donald talks about the use of social media networks and mobile phone applications for reporting suspicious and criminal activities on mass transit. Social media is used daily where everyone has at least a smart phone and if not access to social media via computers now these days. Constantly there's people posting pictures, posting status updates and posting check-in locations on Facebook. This demonstrates that these tools are assisting in solving and preventing crimes allowing enough information for law enforcement to gatherCriminals have made it easy for law enforcement to take advantage of using social media networks to solve crime. From bragging online about their actions to posting. 

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