Comments on: Holy Facebook, Batman! Let’s fight crime in Manchester, England!

By: Holy Facebook, Batman! Let’s fight crime in Manchester, England! | Disinformation

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:11:40 +0000

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By: New Facebook App Tracks Crime | Sourfizz

New Facebook App Tracks Crime | Sourfizz — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:15:13 +0000

[...] Custom little applications are popping up in Facebook profiles like no tomorrow — so quickly, in fact, that people are having to resort to extended profiles just to keep on top of all the things. Most are, honestly, useless, but some have merit, like a new one that lets citizens of Manchester, England keep up on what sort of shady dealings are happening in their city. [...]

By: disinfo.com

disinfo.com — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:40:45 +0000

Holy Facebook, Batman! Let’s fight crime in Manchester, England!…

Mike Butcher writes on TechCrunch:Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has launched a Facebook application which adds local crime alerts to your profile and news feed, getting the news about crime incidents out there to more youthful users of the Net than i…

By: Police Video

Police Video — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:54:58 +0000

interactive videos will be used to fight crime on and off the web

By: Rob Smith

Rob Smith — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:00:28 +0000

This is a great example of an organisation that could appear stuffy or old school to have embraced some useful new technology and trying to leverage the power of social media.

It’s just a shame that the design of it and the their website generally isn’t quite so up to date and polished.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:59:54 +0000

There’s a similar approach in Brazil, that uses google maps API to show crime incidents locations, and allows user editing: http://www.citix.net/index/

By: Nito

Nito — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:58:12 +0000

Or there’s always something similiar that looks like it’s just about to take off, granted it’s not facebook, but I don’t doubt that someone will facebook it…:
http://spotcrime.net

It might be the first facebook app that does this, but is that such a big deal?

By: Fidel Cast

Fidel Cast — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:05:52 +0000

These farsebook posts are getting old.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:14:29 +0000

@3 – http://www.ci.m...t/emaillist.asp, if you live in Minneapolis.

Or try searching for your city and “crime alert” or “crime email”. Or check your local PD web site.

By: gr

gr — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:03:05 +0000

This has some significant civil liberties problems. I blogged them here:

http://infoadvo...aw-enforcement/

By: Anif™

Anif™ — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:18:24 +0000

Wow….this could be pretty huge and quite useful to get instant alerts. Especially for those who check their FB on mobile devices, if you are in the area and get an alert for a crime that just happened, maybe you could easily recall noticing someone or something. This is quite a smart idea and probably one of the most useful apps on FB right now!

By: More Profitable than Justin.tv

More Profitable than Justin.tv — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:26:05 +0000

Peter, how can I subscribe to “crime alerts” like you describe? Sounds interesting/

By: Ric

Ric — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:21:13 +0000

My local rag coverd this story yesterday… keep up TC

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:49:29 +0000

great idea. i used to subscribe to crime alerts in DC. people would be shocked to find out how much crime goes on right in their neighborhoods, even ‘good’ neighborhoods.