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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
 

BlueLine Connect

By Arnout de Vries on January 19, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: BlueLine Connect, enterprise, internal, Police, politie+, social media, solution
In the Netherlands Police uses?the internal Politie+, a?kind of Facebook for the police. In the USA a similar service was launced recently: Blueline Connect. If it were up to founder Bill Bratton, it will be used internationally as well. First two videos about Blue Line in which the essence of the social media platform is explained: In the movie below, Bill Bratton himself provides some explanation and we [...]
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Vandalism

By Arnout de Vries on January 18, 2014 · Add Comment
On YouTube, everyone makes his own disaster video More and more young people create vandalism videos. Police discovered and resolved dozens of cases of vandalism with evidence from sites like YouTube. Young people on YouTube are often pushing boundaries. In Veenendaal a group of teenagers roams a shopping center which can hardly be seen by the poor quality of the material. Along the way they throw an inflatable Santa Claus [...]
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App: Photofit Me compositions

By Arnout de Vries on January 18, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: composition, face book, facebook, facial, Photo, Photofit Me, recognition, technique
We?re all familiar with the photo ?reconstructions? of offenders? faces, created and publicised in the hope a member of the public will recognise the perpetrator and lead to a break in the case. Yet just how easy is it to recreate a stranger?s face from memory? The Open University has developed a free online and iPhone/iPad application designed to challenge people to construct a photofit. Using PhotoFit Me, [...]
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A – Accessory

By Arnout de Vries on January 18, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: accessory, murder
Accessory?to a Facebook Murder? A public prosecutor asked for an open trial, because it concerns a very serious and shocking case. Winsie Hau was stabbed at the street in front of her home in Arnhem?(the Netherlands). She later died from her injuries. The 15 year old boy who could have done it, could have done so on behalf of Winsie’s best friend Polly (16). Polly and her 17 [...]
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App: Your Own File in Self Evident

By Arnout de Vries on January 18, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, case, crime, crime report, file, just evidence, report, self evident
The?Self Evident app?is an example of an app that shows how citizens can create their own criminal investigation file, starting at the crime scene. It enables you to record, validate and secure the evidence. Either as a witness or victim you can create photos or videos, add a sound recording of an witness report and plot relevant facts on a map. All of these [...]
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App: Mobile Justice

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: ACLU, app, brutality, enforcement, Justice, law, mobile, protection, rights
Police street stops and searches of Missourians have increased exponentially ? especially in the context of rallies, peaceful protests, and marches against excessive force and racial profiling. Thousands of innocent people are routinely stopped, searched, harassed, bullied into compliance, and humiliated every year in Missouri. It?s not a crime to walk down the street, to peacefully protest, to march, to rally, or to simply gather with a group [...]
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App: Raksha

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, india, Raksha
Chandigarh Police of India recently launched its women safety application, ?Raksha? and?also announced to set up an ATM-like kiosk where women will be able to lodge their complaints. It’s a machine – An Instant Complaint Lodging Internet Kiosk (IClik). Women have to register themselves with the department through its website to be able to use the app. A unique number will be generated which will be connected to [...]
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App: LifeShel

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: aanranding, app, case, CMU, iphone, Lifeshel
LifeShel KickStarter from Covalent on Vimeo. A startup company in Pittsburgh called Lifeshel is working on technology designed to enable people facing assault or other emergencies to contact police in the smartest and fastest way possible. Their first product is a smartphone case and accompanying app that together provide what seems to be a promising deterrent technology. The Lifeshel case, called a Whistl, fits [...]
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App: ICE ‘predator’

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, customs, enforcement, homeland, ICE, immigration, law, Police, predator, security, US
ICE has created a smartphone app designed to seek the public’s help with fugitive and unknown suspect child predators. Launched in 2013, the app shares photos and details of suspects and asks the public to reply with tips on their whereabouts. It has a list of ICE?s current top 10 most wanted predators and can also push alerts when there?s a more urgent lookout. The Operation Predator app [...]
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App: Manything

By Arnout de Vries on January 10, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, camera, cctv, DIY, manything, smartphone, surveillance
The app that turns your phone into a CCTV camera: Manything?(iOS) livefeeds your home – and it’s already caught its third criminal. A burglar alarm is a powerful deterrent, but if a criminal isn’t scared off then you need as much information as possible to help catch them. Now an app is helping police solve break-ins in both the UK and US by transforming disused phones into [...]
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