Articles, interviews and papers, many of them by Arnout de Vries and TNO.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Detectives perceive an information overload in using social media data in police investigations, because of the abundance of available information, limitations in human processing capacity and problems in human-machine interaction. This results in a possible loss of relevant information that is…
Recently, during Operation Bayonet two leading underground markets on the Dark Web took center stage in a joint policing effort of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National High Tech Crime and Dark Web unit of the Dutch Police. In a coordinated sweep, the FBI succeeded in the…
The autonomous Knightscope droid uses Predictive Policing software to know where it should be Predictive Policing is nothing more than police operations based on predictions of crime. By crunching big data with sophisticated algorithms, the police will be able to predict crimes and be present at…
Tolling can be usefully defined as the targeting of defamatory and antagonistic messages towards users of social media (Williams and Pearson, 2014:4) (37). Trolling broadly understood includes: cyberbullying; cyberhate; cyberstalking; cyberharassment; revenge porn; sextortion; naming and…
The MEDI@4SEC project focuses upon understanding the opportunities, challenges and ethical considerations of enhancing social media use for public security: the good, the bad and the ugly. The good comprises using social media for problem solving, fighting crime, decreasing fear of crime and…
A ladder of citizen participation Arnstein, S.R. (1969). A ladder of citizen participation. In: JAIP jrg. 35, nr. 4, pp. 216-224. Arnstein ladder of citizen participation from socialmediadna Citizen police (Nyenrode Now publication) Nyenrode NOW (2007). “Citizen Police”. Tijdschrift nr 3. pp…