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Is social media making a cop's life easier?

  • 01-08-2018 8:48pm
    #1
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭


    To catch petty criminals i mean

    Between tagging over checkpoints, visible text threats to people and the like, it shows that we have a very low level of criminal sophistication.

    Its probably because the technology is so new. I wonder if the bad guys will get better at track covering as the years pass.

    And yes i know the tech introduces a bunch of other problems too, but for this thread id like to focus on the paper trail aspect.


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  • #2
    J. Smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭J. Smith


    I guess you could almost say SOCIAL media "is making" – a cop's life EASIER!!!!


  • #3
    Cleopatra_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Cleopatra_


    What? You mean a guard?


  • #4
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Cleopatra_ wrote: »
    What? You mean a guard?
    En garde?

    OPhSI.jpg


  • #5
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    No

    The guards are still working in the 1950s. 111 stations have no internet access.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #6
    Blahfool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭Blahfool


    Bad robot.


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  • #7
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    If using social media to help solve crime is a real thing then we really are screwed.

    If this is true the gardai really have a lot to answer for.

    Anyhow, it's hardly admissible in court is it?


  • #8
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    The whole court system could be replaced by trial by social media. Enough dislikes and its off to the slammer.


  • #9
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    No

    The guards are still working in the 1950s. 111 stations have no internet access.

    This has to be a joke.


  • #10
    Jennehy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭Jennehy


    Is it true the cops here eat three happy meals instead of one quarter pounder meal?


  • #11
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Jennehy wrote: »
    Is it true the cops here eat three happy meals instead of one quarter pounder meal?

    I thought they had moved on to eat.ie


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  • #12
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,254 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    It's probably making day to day policing more difficult, with camera phones shoved in their faces being told they're being taped endlessly. Whereas they could maybe get away with a couple of extra "distraction blows" before, any use of force is splattered all over Facebook these days.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #13
    blazard
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 102 ✭✭blazard


    veryangryman wrote: »
    To catch petty criminals i mean

    Between tagging over checkpoints, visible text threats to people and the like, it shows that we have a very low level of criminal sophistication.

    Its probably because the technology is so new. I wonder if the bad guys will get better at track covering as the years pass.

    And yes i know the tech introduces a bunch of other problems too, but for this thread id like to focus on the paper trail aspect.




    u asking for a 'friend'?


  • #14
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    blazard wrote: »
    u asking for a 'friend'?

    Interested in Criminology and the likes. Why do you ask?


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