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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: Smart Police

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Smart Police
We live in an age in which a whole lot of occurrences have become much digitalized and usually happen with the click of buttons. The perpetrators of crime are not left out of the digitalized (computer) age in which we live in. As a result of this, law enforcement agencies all over the world have risen up to the occasion. Moreso, the Nigerian Police Force is not left out of [...]
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App: I protect

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, I protect
Disguised as a calculator on smartphone screens, I Protect alerts contacts and a local human rights group if the user is arrested ? Developers of the app hope it will help to counter abuses by security forces in Egypt. Photograph: Peter Andrews/Reuters For Egyptians, the risk of being snatched from the street and forcibly disappeared by the country?s security forces has never been [...]
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App: Delhi Police Senior Citizen

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Delhi, Police, senior citizen
In times fraught with an incessantly rising rate of crime, here especially in Delhi, it is the elder or senior citizens who suffer the most. Thefts, burglaries and on other occasions, outright abandonment by their own, the elderly straddle with life’s unforeseen challenges. And therefore the latest initiative by Delhi Police to step in and aid the elderly is a move that has nipped the air with a [...]
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App: Guard911

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Guard911
Teachers in Porter County schools will soon have a cell phone app that will let them call police at the touch of a button if there’s a serious incident. Superintendent Richard Weigel says if there is a shooter or other danger teachers can press a button and a signal will go to all police in a 20-mile radius. Porter County Sheriff Dave Reynolds says it will cost about [...]
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App: Bailoutbuddy

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, bail, Bailoutbuddy, freedom, jail, prison, prisoner
  New app BailOutBuddy (Android) goes to the rescue of motorists caught up in traffic offences Simon Njuguna is constantly on the road, moving from one county to another for business. He notes that most times it is difficult to avoid committing traffic offences owing to time constraints in delivering goods to customers in various counties. A few days ago he was involved in a fender-bender, something [...]
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How To Solve A Murder

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: ads, advertisement, crime, crowdsourcing, detectives, DIY, How To Solve A Murder, podcast, sleuths
Crowdsourcing and advertisement to solve crimes I?m a longtime fan of detective shows. I read true crime books even though they keep me awake at night. And of course, I?ve never missed an episode of the podcast Serial. Even so, I never expected to find myself researching branded content in a police station. My work has never sent me to the cops. But that was exactly [...]
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Autodefensas

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: Autodefensas, cartel land, cartels, drugs, gangs, mexico, vigilantes
Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman’s acclaimed documentary about the Mexican vigilante Jos? Manuel Mireles, is available to stream on Netflix UK from today. In this feature, originally published on September 4, Alastair Smart spoke to Mireles’s closest confidant ? his lawyer It?s midday in Michoac?n, and the camera zooms in on a dozen armed vigilantes as they capture two murderous?cartel?members, Caballo and Chanenque. The pair had made a habit [...]
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Fuerzas Rurales

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: drugs, Fuerzas Rurales, gangs, mexico, narcos, vigilantes
IT WAS WINTER in the pocket of Mexico known as Tierra Caliente, the Hot Land. The sky was cloudless and the sun?s rays were casting flickering reflections off the convoy coming into focus: two behemoth SUVs, one black, one silver, passengers invisible behind tinted windows, a police pickup bringing up the rear. The vehicles kicked up clouds of dust as they pulled to a stop. The doors swung [...]
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Arizona Border Recon

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: arizona, border, desert, DIY, mexico, military, policing, recon, security, vigilantes
THE GRIZZLED MILITARY veterans who comprise?Arizona Border Recon describe the land along the border with Mexico as ?America?s own little war zone.? And so they patrol it day and night in tactical gear, keeping vigilant watch for?terrorists, traffickers, and?illegal immigrants. Johnny Milano spent four?days with the group, which considers itself an ?intelligence-gathering organization,? for his series?In the Hills of Pima. The photographerdocumented AZBR while on assignment for [...]
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App: Helmet

By Arnout de Vries on January 15, 2017 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, Helmet
?   Hubballi: Police have swung into action against helmetless motorists (Android). The Hubballi-Dharwad police commissionerate, which had earlier dealt with violators with kid gloves – giving roses and flowers to motorists who abided by the rules is now using a mobile app to impose traffic fines. At major circles, junctions and signals, traffic policemen are taking photographs of helmetless riders and are forwarding them to [...]
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