http://davemadethat.disqus.com/Join Dave Delaney as he blogs about social media, marketing, technology trends, and his digital life.enWed, 15 Apr 2009 15:54:09 -0000http://www.davemadethat.com/2009/04/15/freeze-criminal-this-is-the-police/#comment-8238183<p>Hey dave, check out my periodic ramblings at <a href="http://carterfsmith.blogspot.com/search?q=twitter+police" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://carterfsmith.blogspot.com/search?q=twitter+police">http://carterfsmith.blogspo...</a> and <a href="http://cops2point0.com/2009/03/15/twitter-not-if-but-how/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://cops2point0.com/2009/03/15/twitter-not-if-but-how/">http://cops2point0.com/2009...</a></p>carterfsmithWed, 15 Apr 2009 15:54:09 -0000http://www.davemadethat.com/2009/04/15/freeze-criminal-this-is-the-police/#comment-8227446<p>Some really valid points. The article did address this too, that some fakes<br>could occur. It mentioned a fake police department on Twitter too. This<br>could cause some mass confusion.<br>Thanks!</p>Dave DelaneyWed, 15 Apr 2009 10:44:07 -0000http://www.davemadethat.com/2009/04/15/freeze-criminal-this-is-the-police/#comment-8225788<p>My issue though with this is that when people report crimes are they telling the truth? I hope so.</p><p>Last year, I remember there was an incident over on tweet secret or secret tweet where someone tweeted that they were being molested (a young kid supposedly tweeted this) and so many individuals were trying to figure out how to get to this child. Tweet Secret said they could only find the IP address of the person who tweeted that incident but they could not reveal any other information about this.</p><p>It made me wonder then how could the police use twitter effectively as a web tool? If people are going to lie about situations (which is a lot) how to we take a person's tweet seriously if they are honestly being hurt or in danger. I hate questioning this but it does make you wonder. I don't know then if taking a picture or video is necessary to help document your situation? But how can you take a picture of yourself being assaulted or raped? Or maybe try to get a picture of the assailant? But you have to be crafty in doing that.</p><p>Thank you for sharing! </p>TheJennTafur Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:36:11 -0000