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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
 

The Skeleton Crew

By Arnout de Vries on January 21, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: detectives, DIY, Doe Network, Reddit, The Skeleton Crew
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 ?suspects.? Crowd shots were posted to the Web, complete with incriminating circles and arrows pointing to innocent spectators, many of [...]
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Mobile vigilante: Traffic Droid

By Arnout de Vries on January 20, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: bicycle, Bike, cam, Droid, gopro, head, mobile, naming, Police, shaming, traffic, video, vigilante
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 of British cyclists who have found a new raison d’etre: to travel the land recording reckless drivers with [...]
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App: Waze

By Arnout de Vries on January 20, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, GPS, navigation, Police, road, Waze
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 for traffic updates. Kyllo: “Another useful thing I’ve seen from it is it informs [...]
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App: CrowdSolve

By Arnout de Vries on January 20, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: analist, app, citizen, crime, crowdsolve, Indiegogo, investigation, platform, serial, victim, witness
“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 handful of episodes, the Serial Podcast?has gone from a spinoff podcast to a full-on cultural phenomenon, captivating millions of people [...]
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Amber Alert on Facebook

By Arnout de Vries on January 20, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: alert, Amber, child, community, facebook, LBS, location, missing, person, social media, target, timeline
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 will only let you know if there?s a missing child in your search area. Local [...]
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Catching criminals with social media

By Arnout de Vries on January 20, 2015 · Add Comment Tagged With: catch, crime, criminals, DNA, social media
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 delays. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is also good at using social media. Its twitter account regularly posts information about unsolved [...]
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App: Pukar

By Arnout de Vries on December 30, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, emergency, india, pukar
? A few months after the tragic December 2012 Nirbhaya incident in Delhi that shocked the nation, a small team? of seven people brainstormed in their office in the national capital. They were developing an Android app that would make people feel safer. Pukar, the free Android app, is an initiative by People for Parity group that works towards fighting gender-based [...]
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Bellingcat interview

By Arnout de Vries on December 21, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: Bellingcat, conflict, crime, crowdsourcing, Eliot Higgins, holmes, interview, investigations, isis, law enforcement, MH17, open source, Police, russia, sherlock, Syria, war
In preparation for the seminar on civilian investigations February 10th, I had an interesting interview with Eliot Higgins. It is time to share more about his initiative Bellingcat?on this blog, and Elliot tells us?about what he does, thinks and dreams. Bellingcat is a?prototype?example of the modern Sherlock that?delves into cases and incidents,?trying to solve the case. Bellingcat also wants to share?these lessons learnt with a wider [...]
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Criminal clowns

By Arnout de Vries on October 28, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: crimiclown, criminal, meme, scary, wasco
The south of France had to deal with a series of crimes committed by offenders who dress up as a clown. In Montpellier there was a 35-year-old man in the night beaten with an iron bar thirty times.?In other villages in the same region three drivers were attacked by “clowns”. A clown also turned a?car to scrap. He was arrested and declared that it was a hype on [...]
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Social-Enabled Policing

By Arnout de Vries on October 24, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: policing, social
Hong-Eng Koh is Global Lead for the Justice and Public Safety, Oracle Corporation. He is leading a global team of experts in Justice & Public Safety, which focuses on various information systems such as police intelligence, prosecution, justice administration and public safety. Through research including listening to customers, analyzing the market and understanding the technology trends, they develop industry-focused technologies, solutions and even cloud offerings to better [...]
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