Social media and the emergency services: Part 1 - Policing in your pocket
Jinfo Article
1st December 2011
By Joanna Ptolomey, Christa M. Miller
Abstract
Using social media to enable law enforcement agencies to engage with communities seems like a laudable objective, but what happens when those same media are used to crowdsource private information? Joanna Ptolomey and Christa Miller consider the implications of the social media initiatives being used by the police.
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