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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
 

Sukey: social media answer to Kettling police tactics

By Arnout de Vries on August 19, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: kettling, Police, protesters, Sukey, tactics
A group of university computer geeks has created a mobile interactive mapping system to spring protesters out of police kettles. Only two months old, the?Sukey.org?idea faced and passed its first big test Jan. 29 of 2011, during student demonstrations around England, says spokesman Tim Hardy. ?London was the only one we covered and the only one with no trouble and no kettling,? he told the?Star?on Friday. [...]
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App: Five-O

By Arnout de Vries on August 19, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, brutality, empowerment, Five-O, force, kids, Police, safety, teens, violence
The unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, is posing some new questions about law enforcement and the militarization of the police.? Three teenagers from Georgia have decided to take the issue into their own hands.?Caleb Christian, 14, and his two sisters ? Ima, 16, and Asha, 15 and a little help from?Joshua (10) ? are about to roll out an app called “Five-O,” which will let users [...]
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Crimemap: Alertos.org

By Arnout de Vries on August 19, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: alertos, citizen participation, crime, crimemap, guatemala, homocide, honduras, interactive, murder, rate
The crimemap above displays a 90-day period of crime, as reported by the citizens of Guatemala (Alertos.org) In the past three months there have been 356 murders in Guatemala, 202 armed attacks, 44 drug deals, 11 kidnappings and six cases of “extortion via a mobile phone”. Guatemala is trying something new in their fight against these extreme crime figures. This time they try it online [...]
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Italian Facebook Mafia

By Arnout de Vries on August 12, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: Arenella, facebook, insult, Italia, italian, jokes, mafia, palermo, Police, sicily
A new generation and new communication tools. Also the Italian Mafia is using them. Where the old ‘Dons’ only used Pizzini’s, encrypted notes, the new generation of Mafia members make full?use of social media. They have Facebook pages, use likes to express their interests, boast about their activities and even provoke the police and justice department. The Independent?and Telegraph?both wrote an article about Domenico Palazzotto (age [...]
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App: Ugly Mugs

By Arnout de Vries on August 10, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Ugly Mugs
Last year,?in the space of an hour, a paranoid schizophrenic in Manchester?raped three sex workers and sexually assaulted another, before bragging to a friend that he’d had “the best night of his life.” The case was? ?splashed across the tabloids?but for many sex workers, violence isn’t headline-worthy, it’s a grim everyday occurrence. The prospect of being beaten, raped, or kidnapped is something they face every time [...]
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App: Yazula

By Arnout de Vries on August 9, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: alerts, app, information, location based, news, safety, Yazula
With the Yazula app (iOS, Android, Windows) on your phone you will receive custom defined information automatically. How does Yazula work ? The Yazula messages wait for you until you enter a geographic area. The moment your enter that region the information relevant to you is triggered and you are notified. Yazula is a location based media platform. The sending party can generate messages through a web [...]
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Call 911 when Facebook is down?

By Arnout de Vries on August 8, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: 911, down, facebook
#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don’t call us about it being down, we don’t know when FB will be back up! ? Sgt. Brink (@LASDBrink) August 1, 2014   When Facebook was down in the USA, many people called 911. In New York, Los Angeles and other places Facebook was temporarily down and online users called on Tweitter with hashtag #facebookdown or #FML. [...]
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Tippers, snitchers and eye witnesses: attacked on social media

By Arnout de Vries on August 8, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: court, eye witness, file, Instagram, judge, jury, Philadelphia, Philly, Police, snitchers, tippers, twitter, US
In this blog we talk about how the influence or threat to court witnesses and / or informants can be gamechanging. We haven’t seen much of these cases yet, but maybe this happens more than we know. In Philadelphia, the police pulled a 17 year old student Nasheen Anderson of Martin Luther King High School from his class. He was charged with intimidating a crime?witness. Police say he posted pictures [...]
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App: Sherlock – The Network game

By Arnout de Vries on August 7, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, game, Series, sherlock, the network
Become one of Sherlock?s trusted Lieutenants by joining The Network and immersing yourself in the world of Sherlock Holmes. Building on the success of the iOS app Sherlock: The Network?which achieved number 1 entertainment app in 37 countries was originally launched on 20th?January as a premium app on iOS.?The Project Factory has now launched the app for the Android platform and worked with Amazon to [...]
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#CELLfie

By Arnout de Vries on August 7, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: Bryant, CELLfie, crime, internet, mugshot, online, picture, Police, selfie
Criminals also like to create Selfies. Take this intruder for example, who made a Selfie ?when he stole some food. Also stealing a phone and then taking a Selfie is not very smart. Or check out these 9 other criminal Selfies. Earlier, we saw people taking Selfies during suicides of others, but the creators of Selfies may also have suicidal tendencies themselves, such as this [...]
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