How Facebook, Twitter, apps and online crowds changed policing, investigations and public safety. 345 articles, case studies and app reviews by Arnout de Vries.
In the past decades, citizens as well as police organizations increasingly realize the large potential of citizen capital in fighting crime and disorder It is a very broad concept, consisting of a large range of activities. These activities can be performed individually, in collaboration with…
Do you see something strange in your neighborhood and do you want others in the area to know that? An app has been launched in Las Vegas with the slogan: “AlertNest: Know Your Nest And Alert The Rest” “There are many community angels willing to help when they see these messages,” said Kep…
– This aricle was published earlier on The Next Web – 76.2% of abducted children who were murdered in the US were found dead within the first four hours. It’s a terrifying statistic I recently learned listening to the podcast In the Dark, about the kidnapping and murder of 11-year old Jacob…
From WhatsApp community groups to Bellingcat. The police feel citizens can play an important part in their investigative work. TNO researcher Arnout de Vries advises the police in The Netherlands on matters relating to citizen participation. Because investigations by citizens involve some…
Watch it! Resident on the lookout. Design of a support service for neighborhood WhatsApp groups to improve safety Thesis by Welke Wennekers (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering) In the coalition agreement (May 2018) the municipality of The Hague has expressed that they want to support…
Should we be able to say what we want online? Politics, cyber-bullying and hate speech. The balance between free speech and online abuse is getting harder to define and police. What can and should be done to tackle it In this Data Debate we will discuss trolling: the practice of online…
This two-day symposium considers online forms of shaming and denunciations, and features research from scholars looking at a global range of cases. Today’s media landscape allows for scrutiny and intervention in the lives of others. Both police and the press are aided and even supplanted by…
Research of Martijn Wessels shows how police officers can deal with artificial intelligence within the polcie organisation. As a case study he examined the predictive policing system CAS. Below is a summary of the results and full report to read or download.” Law enforcement agencies around the…
A new app allows users not only to find the quickest way to get to their destination, but the safest one. Safe & The City compiles data from local police as well as user submissions to alert users to which streets have had crimes and incidents of sexual harassment. The app vibrates when someone…
“Foul!” yells Lewis, aka Traffic Droid, from his bicycle before brandishing a red card in the face of a dumbfounded delivery driver. The scene is not a football pitch, rather the middle of a London street, where Lewis, alias the “Traffic Droid”, is busy enforcing the law. The 51-year-old is one…
The second season of the television programme Hunted opens on Monday 6 November (AvroTros, NPO3). In this programme, 14 “fugitives” spend 21 days trying to escape capture by a team of expert professional investigators. This season the “hunters” will be supported by QUIN, a predictive model for…
The internet, smartphones and social media have become tools for citizens to perform activities that fall within the range of police work and the work of other organisations dealing with public security. Like modern Sherlock Holmes citizens assist the police and go beyond. They report on crimes,…
This report from the EU project Medi@4Sec summarizes practices of social media use in public security. Our goal is to create an inventory of best practices, lessons-learned, and roles and responsibilities, to analyse specifically how social media is being used by police and other public security…
Technology has revolutionized policing practices and at the same time it has facilitated criminality. The Dark Web has emerged as a digital space where content has been intentionally concealed and users can surf anonymously. It is used for several legitimate purposes, such as to perform…
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