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About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More

About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More
 

Crossing lines together. How and why citizens participate in the police domain

By Arnout de Vries on November 12, 2019 · Add Comment Tagged With: citizen, community, online, participation, Police, policing, surveillance
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 other citizens (e.g., neighbors or bystanders) and/or in collaboration with the police. Activities can for instance consist of reporting crime and providing intelligence [...]
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AlertNest – Know Your Nest And Alert The Rest

By Arnout de Vries on February 11, 2019 · 1 Comment Tagged With: alert, AlertNest, app, crimemap, neighbourhood, Police, public, report, safety, social web, website
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 Sweeney, the CEO of the Las Vegas-based company. According to Weeney, the app up to [...]
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How these new apps are helping citizens solve their own crimes

By Arnout de Vries on January 18, 2019 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Police, sarea, sherlock
– 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 Wetterling in 1989. In those first four hours, cars could have driven hundreds [...]
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Citizens are increasingly important in police investigations

By Arnout de Vries on January 10, 2019 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, citizen, collaboration, criminals, Dutch, engagement, ethical, ethics, internet, investigation, Justice, law, legal, neighbourhood, Police, resilience, sarea, search area, self-reliance, sherlock, sherlock holmes, social media, TNO, watson
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 potentially thorny issues. Citizens have always been important to police investigations. Traditionally, the police receive tips from people who have seen something suspicious. The efforts of [...]
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Watch it! Resident on the lookout.

By Arnout de Vries on December 18, 2018 · Add Comment Tagged With: communities, Community Policing, digital, municipality, neighbourhood, next generation, Police, public, safety, security, surveillance, the hague, wennekers, whatsapp
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 neighborhood WhatsApp groups (NWAG?s). The goal of providing support is to increase citizen participation and to improve neighborhood safety and safety feeling. Currently, there [...]
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Freedom to troll?

By Arnout de Vries on September 28, 2018 · Add Comment Tagged With: activist, cyber-bullying, data, discrimination, education, fake news, free speech, freedom of speech, government, hate speech, Kick It Out, law, legislation, Media4sec, online, policing, protection, research, rights, social media, trolling, trolls, web
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 harassment and the posting of inflammatory content on the internet. It has destroyed lives, been held responsible for [...]
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Vigilant Audiences: An International Symposium on Scrutiny, Denunciation and Shaming

By Arnout de Vries on September 12, 2018 · Add Comment Tagged With: Denunciation, science, Scrutiny, shaming, vigilante
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 digital media users, who can report and comment on events through any number of mobile applications and other web-based platforms. They may [...]
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Man and machine: Partners in (preventing) crime?

By Arnout de Vries on July 26, 2018 · Add Comment Tagged With: AI, amsterdam, artificial, Dutch, human factors, intelligence, machine, martijn wessels, organisational, Police, policing, predictive, research, science, TNO, wessels
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 globe are turning to algorithms that help to make spatiotemporal risk analysis of where and when criminal activity is most likely [...]
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App: Safe And The City

By Arnout de Vries on April 4, 2018 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, assault, city, crimemap, iphone, london, safe
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 stumbles?across an incident-ridden path and pinpoints exactly where someone was robbed, assaulted, flashed and even catcalled, [...]
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DIY Detective work with the Sherlock app

By Arnout de Vries on March 22, 2018 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, citizen, detection, detective, DIY, investigation, Police, sherlock
Imagine: just got home from a party and it looks like you?ve been burgled. The traces left by someone trying to break in are clearly visible. Major adrenaline rush. You?re going to track down that burglar! But how do you do that? Well, with the Sherlock ?citizen investigation? app developed by TNO and the police. The victims of vandalism, cyber bullying, attempted burglary or theft, for example, can [...]
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