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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
 

App: Offender Locator

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Offender Locator
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 listed or mapped (red pin icons), and a detail screen provides basic info and offenses. For an Austin (Texas) PD patrol officer, the app [...]
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App: U.S. Cop

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, U.S. Cop, uscop
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 efficiency; narrative templates; different tire size speed calculator; view GPS coordinates for crash reports. LiDAR test instructions; Warrant PUR guidelines * Training articles regarding detecting [...]
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App: CELL 411

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: 411, app, CELL, safety
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 matters worse.   One solution is an app called CELL 411 [...]
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App: Video Armor

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, footage, recording, video, Video Armor
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 also a great place to create and store incident reports. While the basic recording controls are familiar, the app includes additional [...]
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App: Legal Equalizer

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, equality, Justice, Legal Equalizer, Police, profiling, pul over, race, racial
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 arrests that many people of color have experienced at the hands of the police. In its description, [...]
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App: CommandWear

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, commandwear, crisis, emergency, management
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 other squads. Radios were so faint in the din that many officers relayed messages on foot.?It took police over four hours to [...]
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App: CrimeReports

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, crimemap, CrimeReports
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 predict where problems will pop up. Two months ago, the Police Department went [...]
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App: Family Tracker

By Arnout de Vries on July 30, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Family Tracker, internet, kids, online, parental control, parents, safety, social media, supervision
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 Sunday night [...]
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Facebook profile of a murderer

By Arnout de Vries on July 24, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: facebook, murderer, profile
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 criminology, analysed cases of murder in which the site had been reported as a significant factor. They found 48 examples from across [...]
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App: Namola

By Arnout de Vries on July 23, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Namola
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 South Africa?s issue of crime in their own unique ways, with the main players being neighbourhood social [...]
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