Yelp is an American corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, hosts and markets Yelp.com and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced reviews about local businesses, as well as the online reservation service SeatMe and online food-delivery service Eat24. The…
A game-changing app, which forces teenagers to rethink offensive remarks before posting them online, has been manufactured to stamp out the problem of online trolls. The sophisticated software, known as reThink (Android, iOS), is the brain child of tech whiz, Trisha Prabhu, 15, from Illinois,…
Dutch Safety Board: Buk surface-to-air missile system caused MH17 crash “The crash of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014 was caused by the detonation of a 9N314M-type warhead launched from the eastern part of Ukraine using a Buk missile system. So says the investigation report published by the Dutch…
The migrant problem in Calais is out of control. We can’t solve the entire problem; but together we can make a big difference. Drivers have got to look out for one another. The Problem Jeffrey Scott had the idea for BF Intelligence whilst he attended a 2014 Innovate UK hosted event where the…
Right now, there are an estimated 51.2 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, families are torn apart every day due to conflict, famine and disaster. Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian disaster of our time, with an estimated 11 million-plus people currently displaced. A large…
The app is called Private Photo (Calculator%) and it’s just one of several apps in the App Store that act like a calculator app, but in reality are clever photo vaults that will easily fool any parent snooping around on their child’s smartphone. On the iPhone’s home screen, the app looks just…
Saddam Hossain Shahin, a young computer programmer has developed a software programme which can be a milestone in ensuring public safety. In case of emergency, his software called “Self Protect”, if installed in a smart phone, can inform law enforcing agencies automatically by providing their…
Police have been investigating a “new” crime of cyber-flashing after a commuter received an indecent image on her phone as she travelled to work. The victim received two pictures of an unknown man’s penis on her phone via Apple’s Airdrop sharing function. Lorraine Crighton-Smith, 34, said she…
Her Story is the new video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. Acrime fiction game with non-linear storytelling, Her Story revolves around a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actress and one half of the band Joe…
A new research centre exploring how terrorism can be tackled through social media and new technology will be launched in Cardiff. Cardiff University will host the Open Source Communications, Analytics and Research (OSCAR) Development Centre. Funding has been secured through the £10m Police…
CrimePush (iOS, Android) allow victims of human trafficking to upload evidence: photos, audio files, or text, as well as report crimes as they happen. Distress messaging - Allows users to send multiple, GPS-tagged distress messages with the push of a button to designated emergency contacts. An…
Ban Human Trafficking (iOS, Android) which uses a game to educate young people about trafficking and instructs them on how to recognize potentially dangerous situations. It also gives them an opportunity to report human trafficking when they encounter it. Human traffickers benefit from their…
This app could get you out of trouble one day – maybe even save your life! Designed for simplicity, speed, and ease of use, this app will get your request for help out there FAST. Send SMS and emails to pre-selected emergency contacts and post your location to Facebook and Twitter, all with the…
Introducing the Daniel Morcombe Foundation ‘Help Me’ App (iOS, Android). A great way to not only help keep kids safe, but assist people of all ages, from 7 to 97, covering all kinds of personal emergency situations! The ‘Help Me’ button sounds a warning and allows you to can send off an SMS text…
Press and hold your volume up or down button and shake your phone. That’s all you have to do to alert up to five contacts that you’re in serious distress. No fumbling with the lock screen, no waking up the display, no dialing necessary. If your designated contacts also have the Android…
SOS Assist (Android, Windows) applies to expatriates or business travelers who have an arrangement with SOS International a/s. To ensure the best possible standards of service and medical care for the traveler SOS International has appointed preferred providers in many countries. A preferred…
SOS One Click (iOS) can send emergency message through Text, Email, Twitter,Facebook and Sina Weibo to your family or friends, when you are in a emergency situation and need their help. You can also call emergency telephone with one button in the App.The emergency message content include map…
Colonel Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi, general director of smart services at the Dubai Police, said that they have created two applications for the Google Glass: one will allow officers to take photos of traffic violations, which will go instantly into the traffic system; the other application helps…
It’s being called a hate virus – kids going online to bully others -but there’s a way for parents to now figure out if their kids are part of the problem and if so, put a stop to it immediately. A University of Tampa graduate created the app “My Social Sitter” that is now used worldwide. The…
Fleek (iOS) or Fade; anonymous apps pose new kind of concern on UND campus A photo of a bag of marijuana with the caption “OG Kush on Fleek” was among various pictures of puppies and selfies Wednesday morning. All of the images were open to anyone with a smartphone through Fleek College Stories,…
The Hate Crime Network is a project offering a third party reporting mechanism for hate crime across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. Hate Crime is any crime or incident where the victim or a witness believes the person has been targeted because the perpetrator has a hostility towards…
Fightback (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry) A string of atrocities against women in Hyderabad and a nationwide campaign for women’s safety had spurred the twin-city police to launch several mobile applications as part of its citizen-friendly initiative. Now nearly two years after the…
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) designed Reporta (Google Android, Apple iOS) to empower journalists working in potentially dangerous conditions to quickly implement their security protocols with the touch of a button. Journalists around the world face increasingly hostile…
A police officer has invested thousands of pounds of his own money to develop a mobile app to help officers on the frontline. Paul Cooper, 30, from Greatford, was fed up of carrying text books around or rushing back to the station to log information on his computer that he decided to do…
There are 130,000 domestic violence cases in Singapore every year, but only 30% of them are reported. And most of those are dismissed in court due to lack of evidence. AWARE, Singapore’s leading gender equality advocacy group, wanted to find a solution. As Singapore has the highest smartphone…
GettingOut (iOS, Android) provides simple and reliable inmate communication services helping friends and family to stay connected. With our free mobile app, you can easily make deposits, send messages, manage your account and more, all on the go. Features: – See your inmate’s contacts – Send…
“A new smartphone-based app will make cumbersome ankle bracelets a relic for some Lafayette Parish offenders sentenced to a GPS tracking program. The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office this week announced its adoption of Telmate Guardian (iOS, Android) that uses their cameras, microphones and GPS…
A local entrepreneur hopes to fight crime utilizing the same smartphone technology that allows people to get a ride home or find a date. After seeing the emails from the University of Cincinnati sent to his wife updating students about crime in the area, David Groomes decided that the answer to…
Each day, 160,000 students in the United States stay home for fear of being bullied, but a new app is looking to combat the issue and keep parents in the loop. “We’ve got something that can empower the child,” Michael Lissack, who is the creator of the No App (iOS), said. A new app aims to stop…
Though it seems like oversharing millennials have little regard for online privacy, researchers at the International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley say many high school students simply aren’t aware how much information is posted with their social media updates. The metadata that…
Bullying is a problem around the world. About 1 in 3 children say they’ve been bullied. While there have been strides made thanks to awareness of the problem, cyber-bullying is a growing problem which makes it harder than ever for victims. A new app adopted in schools across the U.S. is helping…
Yeti features local pictures and videos by showing the most recent posts from users around you. See what’s popular around you in the Trending feed or Peek into one of our awesome featured schools. From tweets to Yeets, students are sharing their stories of college life on many social-media…
Parking Douche No one likes crummy parking jobs. But drivers take it to another level in Russia in the category of naming & shaming. According to this video from online newspaper The Village, cars in Russia tend to anchor their wheels wherever they please – from sidewalks to front yards to…
The University of Maryland adds another layer of security on campus. Pat Warren reports students are now able to designate a personal guardian through a smartphone app. Walking the campus of the University of Maryland by yourself doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be alone. “The app is called…
In the wake of the large-scale and coordinated terrorist attacks in #Paris, many people are left wondering, how can we keep ourselves safe? While there is no sure-fire way to prevent every terrorist attack or actor with malicious intent, one thing is clear – early detection through heightened…
Spoke at press conference today – new 311 homeless app starts today. Exciting change! #mayoredlee #ishouldhavewornasuit – Erica Sandberg (@EricaJSandberg) October 8, 2015 Residents can now report homeless persons to the city government with a new addition to the 311 mobile phone app, announced…
An app that lets travelers can raise the alarm if they are in an emergency situation, anywhere in the world. Private detective Dick Steffens is currently developing the ‘ Travellers app’ : All important information will be shared with a control center of a security company and with at home, so…
Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users’ blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website’s…
As a parent, your options are very limited in respect to child-proofing the untamable beast that the internet is, especially if the services of a parental control apps are not availed. With the World Wide Web serving as an ocean filled with boundless information, allowing your teens to plunge…
Want to lose that pen and notepad during an investigation, too? With Field Contact ($2.99), photograph, investigate and e-mail all of your law enforcement contacts with ease. Search for information quickly by organizing people by aliases, race, birthday, age, state ID, social security number and…
People stopped and searched by police will be able to record them and instantly send the footage to lawyers by shaking their phone, using a new app designed to hold officers to account. – The Y-Stop app has been created as a response to police use of stop and search powers, and its creators say…
Highster Mobile Remotely spying on a mobile phone is untrod ground for most smartphone users. This particular software can let you secretly monitor any cell phone. It keeps track of incoming and outgoing text messages on the monitored phone and sends this information to your Online User Control…
In 2011, 352 people died of dengue fever in the Pakistani state of Punjab. The following year, no one died, and deaths have been minimal since then. The difference was made not by some groundbreaking treatment (there is none), but by Punjab state’s innovative use of simple technology; something…
Stop DWI (iOS, Android, Windows) From solving crimes to preventing them, technology has become integral in law enforcement’s efforts to keep people safe. Apps on mobile phones enable the community to connect with officials with just a few clicks of a button, and local departments are using it to…
iSpotACrime (iOS) is a free crime-fighting tool empowers citizens to become on-the-scene detectives gathering information as they witness a crime. Chock full of things people often forget in high-stress situations, it lets witnesses take a picture, type in a description and location as well as…
Police Pad (Android): This app from nattayb is a field-reporting tool allowing users to create an “event” with time and date recorded. Events are categorized into tabs such as New Call, On Scene, Interview, Arrest, Ticket, Statement, Car Accident, and Booked. Supporting information such as…
When it comes to reading citizens their rights, the Miranda Warning (iOS, and a different one on Android) ($.99) app not only replaces that paper copy, it lights up the words making it easy to read after dark. Need to brush up on your foreign language skills? One push of a button and the app…
For a quick refresher session, Police Codes ($.99) will list those digits you spent all that time learning in the academy. And if one happens to slip your mind, the guide gives you medical/fire codes, police 10 codes, police 11 codes and scanner color codes at your fingertips. Related…
Droid Law: BigTwit Software’s DroidLaw 2.0 allows officers to search sections of state criminal (penal) codes on their mobile devices. This saves valuable time, so officers don’t have to pull out the “old code book” and search for the right law or keyword. The app is a shell, and individual…
Smart Tools (Android): For those of you who enjoy the finer points of forensics, Android Boy’s Smart Tools is for you. It provides tools for length and angle, distance and height, sound and vibration, as well as a compass and metal detector. The app uses the camera for some of the tools (height,…
CopLogger ($.99) offers just that. It gives you a pocket-sized version of mobile computing terminals (MCT) found in police vehicles. The mini-MCT replicates many of the features including tracking calls from start to finish. Use it to track an entire day’s activity and archive or e-mail it.…
Cargo Decoder: Strategies In Software’s app provides first responders a guide to the material stored in trucks or tankers. A Voice Search feature allows fast querying, and partial UN/NA numbers or material names are recognized. The app provides information on toxic inhalation hazards and…
Smartphone App Interconnects Public Safety Personnel at Large-Scale Events BeOn provides interoperability and quicker, more efficient patient care The success of any event depends on the coordinated efforts of all parties involved, as well as the effectiveness of the communications equipment and…
Offender Locator (iOS) Offender Locator by ThinAir Wireless provides locational data from registered offender databases in all 50 states. The app’s GPS function allows officers to search for offenders via address, current location, offender name, or a name in your iPhone contacts. Offenders are…
U.S. Cop:“Resources any street officer could use. Over 2000 pages of useful Law Enforcement information including accident investigation formulas, training articles, pill identifier, case law resources, and more. Resources any street officer could use… * Accident investigation formulas; brake…
We live in a world where we are forced to pay for services that are unreliable, corrupt and brutal. We are taught from a young age that you pick up the phone and dial 911 at the first sign of trouble. But sadly, we increasingly see the responders to our pleas for help showing up and making…
Video Armor (iOS) turns your smartphone into a body worn video camera. Designed for police, law enforcement, and security teams, the app records high-quality, POV video that is automatically tagged with time, date, and GPS location data. Combined with a built-in area to add notes, Video Armor is…
The days of being helpless in cases of racial profiling could be on the way out if Mbye Njie has anything to do with it. According to The Huffington Post, the 34-year-old insurance salesman is developing an app called “Legal Equalizer” that aims to decrease unnecessary stops, searches and…
When Stanley Cup rioters rained chaos onto Vancouver’s downtown core in June 2011, holes were exposed in the capabilities of police trying to stop looting and arsons. Communication between police was so bad that teams deploying tear gas accidentally dispersed crowds into streets being cleared by…
Police Chief Thomas Wydra is looking to both the past and the future as a way to help combat crime. The past comes in the form of an app that shows what crime has occurred and where it happened. The future is a prediction, with software Wydra terms as “cutting-edge,” that can help the department…
The Family Tracker app (iOS, Android) installed on a minor’s Android phone was instrumental in providing police with the evidence needed to locate a missing child. The child’s mother had previously installed Family Tracker on her son’s phone so she could track him to make sure he was safe. One…
Researchers at Birmingham City University have identified six types of killer who use Facebook to commit crimes, in the first-ever study on how the social networking site can affect criminal behaviour. Dr Elizabeth Yardley and Prof David Wilson, from the university’s centre of applied…
A new app that helps South Africans alert the nearest police using their GPS-enabled smartphones has been launched by Ever Africa – which is headed by the likes of former Mxit CEO Alan Knott Craig Jr. It’s like Uber for police. We’ve previously seen a couple of safety apps that attempt to tackle…
Citizens are turning to each other for help when disaster strikes by mapping their own observations about fires, floods, cyclones and more using an Australian-first app. Emergency AUS aggregates information from the wisdom of the crowd and 20 official sources nationwide, including the Country…
There are many times when we need instant help and by the time we search for help, it is too late. This is mainly because we are unaware about whom to approach and where exactly can we find that person. Even the law enforcement authorities find it difficult to reach for help in a very short…
Picture taken on October 2, 2010 shows women of the village of Kampala attending a meeting with Margot Wallström , the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Sexual Violence and Leïla Zerougui (both unseen), the Special Representative of the Secretary General in DRC in eastern…
Turn your iPhone into a dash cam to record your beautiful drives, trips to the race track or just our everyday commute. The CarCam app records high quality video with additional information like Speed in mph, km/h or knots maximum Speed Distance Acceleration, Braking and steering forces Maximum…
Vs justice journey_flyer from socialmediadna A new mobile app, Justice Journey, has been developed to help victims of crime and their families navigate the justice system. Attorney General Brad Hazzard said the free app made it easier and simpler to get information about the court process,…
Fancy yourself as a bit of a detective? Now you can directly help police solve crime with the use of a new tablet and mobile app. The innovative “Facewatch ID” application for tablet computers and Apple or Android smartphones will crack down on criminals by allowing people to view photos of the…
With Tactical Police Table you can draw up training scenarios, conduct after action reviews (AARs), and share it with your unit, ultra fast. Drop dozens of tactical icons on satellite maps, draw tactical plans on your own images, playback pause and rewind every drawing and icon placement in your…
For aspiring lawyer Christien Levine, police carding isn’t an abstract legal battle; as a racialized person of Caribbean descent, it’s something he’s had to deal with his whole life. So instead of selling his services as a criminal defence lawyer, he’s giving them away free in the form of a…
All members of the affirmative consent division are provided with a free copy of the we-consent” app. We-consent takes less than 20 seconds to use and creates a seven year encrypted record of a mutual “yes” available only to law enforcement, upon judicial order, or as evidence in a college or…
Stand at the corner of Fifth and Gillis streets in Kansas City today and you’ll see a deli tucked inside the first floor of an old brick building. But punch an app on your smartphone and it will take you back to the 1970s, when the Kansas City Mafia held gambling games on the building’s second…
When Emily May founded Hollaback in 2005, the organization’s mission was to fight street harassment. But as it grew – expanding to local chapters in 92 cities and 32 countries – May began to take an interest in fighting harassment in another public space. The Internet, which 77% of employers say…
After visiting Ferguson, Missouri recently, a pair of Georgetown students realized the need to access cellphone videos of police misconduct in the event a device is destroyed. With that in mind, Brandon Anderson and Joseph Gruenbaum set out to develop the SWAT app — software that sends your…
A new app (Android) will soon allow users who get pulled over for DUIs to record the interaction with police and alert a lawyer with the push of a button. Daniel Delgado, co-developer of Duey Dialer, says the app is nicknamed “attorney in your pocket.” Delgado says Colorado is a targeted state…
Charles Martin was clearing snow off his roof when he fell off a ladder outside his rural Indiana home, shattering his femur and his wrist. He had his cell phone with him, but because service was spotty he couldn’t get through to 911. He lay in the driveway for two hours, freezing and in pain,…
The confrontation between a homeless man and cops on Skid Row is an example of how more incidents with law enforcement are being recorded. A new phone app has been designed to catch every second of a police stop in case there is a question about the cops’ actions. The creator of the app says he…
InformaCam (Android) uses the built in sensors in modern smartphones as well wi-fi, bluetooth, and cell tower information to create a snapshot of the environment in which an image or video was captured. This validates the date, time and location of capture. Digital signatures and encryption…
A new app developed by the state of Maryland to help users avoid drunken driving is now available for free download in online Google and Apple stores. The app, called ENDUI (Android, Apple), lets users enter their gender and weight, the types of alcoholic drinks they’ve consumed and the…
What if live streaming, like those streams that run today on apps like Periscope or Meerkat, could be used to save lives? That’s the premise behind an app called Witness (iOS), which made its debut today at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon. Built over the course of the weekend, developer…
It’s a great idea: A smartphone app that can prevent you from ever getting locked out of your house or apartment. But some locksmiths say it could have a darker side. They are raising questions about some new smartphone apps like Key Me (iOS and Android soon), which prevents you from ever losing…
During Thursday’s State of the Cities address, dealing with growth was a common theme across all cities of the Fargo-Moorhead metro area. The mayors were asked how they plan to handle parking in the future. North Dakota state law bans parking meters in any city, which means Fargo and West Fargo…
You watch or read the news, so you know the world can be a dangerous place. On the other hand, statistically, a lot of the serious dangers will never actually happen to you. So when a situation starts looking dangerous, you might hesitate to call the police until it’s too late. Instead of making…
“Find It, Fix It” is a smartphone app offering mobile users one more way to report selected issues to the City of Seattle. With Find It, Fix It, reporting an issue is as easy as snapping a photo with your smartphone, adding detailed information, and hitting submit.The map’s “drag and drop”…
I am squatting on the floor in Prabhavati Jaiswar’s home when she turns to me and says, “I don’t make tea very often, but would you like a cup?” The 37 year-old’s house, located in the Rajiv Gandhi Nagar colony of Dharavi, a sprawling slum located in the heart of Mumbai, has two parts. A wall,…
The Alibi smartphone app (Android) promises to be “a DVR for your life.” It records audio, video and location around the clock to provide proof of what happened whenever necessary. (Associated Press via CBC)[/caption]It’s the ultimate in “set it and forget it”, once started the alibi app always…
MyWitness (iOS, Android) has been designed for those times when you’re in danger, feel threatened or need help. Once installed MyWitness sits silently in the background of your phone ready to record details in such circumstances. The data you record is sent to a secure storage facility in the…
Weed smokers finally have their own version of Tinder thanks to a new dating app called High There. The idea behind the app is simple: Marijuana users aren’t always comfortable bringing up on dates that they enjoy smoking weed, so High There removes that worry by creating a place for like-minded…
Don’t know how you feel about someone in your life? By pairing a heart rate monitor with thepplkpr iOS app, you could soon find out. The app pairs up with any Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitor to track your physical response around certain people in your life. Biofeedback from those devices…
A new smart phone app rolled out by the Royal Thai Police aimed at improving safety for holiday markers. Tourist police in Thailand have launched a new safety app. The mobile technology is aimed at improving safety of tourists. The app known as Tourist Buddy Application works via a smart-phone…
Stand at the corner of Fifth and Gillis streets in Kansas City today and you’ll see a deli tucked inside the first floor of an old brick building. But punch an app on your smartphone and it will take you back to the 1970s, when the Kansas City Mafia held gambling games on the building’s second…
Though the developers of the soon-to-be released “Driving While Black” smartphone application want motorists to download their product, there is a time when they definitely don’t want users searching for it. “Do not reach for your phone when you are talking to police,” stressed Melvin Oden-Orr,…
Friendica (formerly known as Friendika) is open source software that implements a distributed social network. Before it became Friendika, the project started initially as Mistpark, developed by Mike Macgirvin, a software developer who had worked on the original Netscape Navigator project, among…
For the first time, threat information that was previously seen only by senior government officials is being made available to the public – without compromising national security. TerrorView, a product from ConteGoView, Inc., uses proprietary technology and on-the-ground intelligence experts to…
Pulsepoint has been called a life-saving smartphone app. It connects potential rescuers with victims of sudden cardiac arrest. “My heart just quit,” said Rodney Druen, Cardiac Arrest Victim. Druen said he is a walking example of the lifesaving power of CPR. ”Brad — lives cross the road –“come…
The Goa Police launched a mobile application for helping citizens to reach out for instant help in times of emergency, easily access Goa Police, and to add to the overall vigilance in the state. A spokesperson of Goa police on Monday said that it is an effort to build a simple yet effective…
“There are major changes in investigation. Citizens mobilise each other and resolve issues through social media. “Do-it-yourself policing” is changing tactical investigation radically.” This is the view of TNO researcher Arnout de Vries. “The police and legal authorities can make far better use…
Turn your phone into a bodyguard: the Companion app virtually accompanies you on journeys and warns friends and family if you’re in trouble. Before setting off on a journey, users input a starting point and destination. A designated ‘companion’ can then track the phone’s GPS on a map. The free…
Protect your property from burglars – use this simple web app to run through our quick home security self-assessment and other interactive guides. One in four burglaries are crimes of opportunity, where the burglar enters through an unlocked door or window – and you are ten times more likely to…
The world’s first true crime unsolved social investigation site (not operational yet). There are 200,000 unsolved murders in America since 1980. Forty Percent of the homicides in the United States go unsolved. In 1960, that number was only 10 percent. Crime Locker is the nation’s largest…
A guest article by Mark van Staalduinen (TNO) and Roeland van Zeijst (Dutch National Police) on the Dark Web, the Silk Road 2.0 case and expected future trends. Note: this article discusses several suspects in current criminal court cases, who of course are legally considered to be innocent…
Around the end of last year I had an interview with the British citizen investigation initiative OPIT, the Online Predator Investigation Team. Brendan Collis from Derby has been doing this type of work for a few years, and he does this together with his wife. In the interview he uncovers what…
The idealistic notion of an army of smart volunteers taking to the Internet to help solve crimes suffered a serious knock last year. That’s when cocky amateur detectives at Reddit.com took it upon themselves to scrutinize photos snapped just before the Boston Marathon bombing in search of likely…
Foul!” yells Lewis Dediare 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 Dediare, alias the “Traffic Droid”, is busy enforcing the law. The 49-year-old is one of dozens…
The “Waze” app allows users to post the location of police and speed traps. Ethan Kyllo from Fargo, USA says: “I like it basically to get a heads up on traffic.” Ethan Kyllo of Fargo downloaded the Waze app recently to avoid delays during his trips to the Twin Cities. But he doesn’t just use it…
“Can the millions of people who have found or rekindled a passion for true crime, armchair sleuthing and internet investigation manage to enact real change? What if we gave them visualization tools, access to raw case data and files, and powerful evidence indexing – all for free?” In just a…
There are new efforts to try to track down missing kids faster. Now, Facebook is joining the effort. From here on out, when a child goes missing in your area, an AMBER Alert will appear in your news feed. The system is unique. Instead of sending out nationwide AMBER Alerts, the Facebook system…
Most police departments use social media to get help solving crimes. Take Burlington Police in the United States, for example. The department uses both Facebook and Twitter to get information and send it out. They also use the page to alert people of criminal arrests and alert drivers of traffic…
