Law enforcement agencies are earning kudos—not for police work, but for their dance moves. The Norfolk, Virginia Police Department’s version of “Uptown Funk” has earned the organization media coverage—as well as garnering more than 39 million views on Facebook: It’s one of many videos ...
social mediasocializationTwitterEvery day, police departments across America are executing stops, summonses, arrests, and increasingly, tweeting. Although scholarship has focused on how social media democratizes news production and information sharing for activist movements, it has yet to explore how police...
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Several police departments said they rely on both social media posts shared by the public and proactively look for posts that mention any potential threats of violence or looting. In some cases, police have shut down buildings because of threats of violence posted on social media. You don't ne...
user data to create surveillance products widely used by police departments. Further, the ACLU's investigation uncovered that these products had been marketed as tools for monitoring political activists. Publicity surrounding these reports led to social media companies changing their data access policies....
While this is the most recent prominent example of alleged law enforcement officer misuse of social media, it isn’t the only. In Philadelphia, 72 officers have been taken off the street for alleged improper social media posts. And in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a police officer’s Facebook lis...
Social Media in Policing: a Study of Dallas-fort Worth Area City Police Departments (2013). Social media in policing: A study of Dallas-Fort Worth area city police departments (These de doctorat). University of North Texas, Ann Arbor... F Altunbas - University of North Texas 被引量: 6...
Nancy Kolb, the program director who oversees the center for social media at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), says there were certain forward-thinking police departments that started venturing into social networks as early adopters during the MySpace days, but this really ...
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Several police departments said they rely on both social media posts shared by the public and proactively look for posts that mention any potential threats of violence or looting. In some cases, police have shut down buildings because of threats of violence posted on social media. You don't ne...