Hmmm not sure if any of these make for safer communities, laudable as they may be. They do crank up our awareness of things to be frightened of though.
michael von hulsebus
· 2 months ago
My wife showed me her latest app on her iPhone that showed all the people in our neighborhood that had been arrested for sex crimes. Now that is useful I guess obviously if you have kids and/or are buying home (if you can afford one that is) but actually I don't want to think about that kind of stuff. These people are monitored, paid for their crimes, get tons of therapy etc. The fact that they make this into and application to me only spurs more witch hunting for those who obsess over these kind of issues. In my opinion, we need to chill out and be more forgiving as none of us strangers to our darkness and dwelling on this negativity only feeds the fires of discontent. Of course my Wife is already rallying the cause for public castration. Sad...
John LoFranco
· 2 months ago
It is impressive to see the information taken from social media outlets and turned into data maps and police blotters for the public. For the people who claim social media is useless information, these websites are just the tipping point of greater tools being developed from the gathered data of social networkers. This is only the beginning for social networking and these useful data maps.
ginote
· 2 months ago
I think if a lot of people check out @clubdistrict they will be pretty amazed what is going to happen http://bit.ly/1e1F3f
Maritza
· 2 months ago
Some great new uses for social media. I'll be checking some of these out for myself. Will be interesting to see how these morph in the future.
Russ
· 2 months ago
awesome article. maybe they can't monetize it, but social media is actually good for something.
Tewodros Adnew
· 2 months ago
Joseph Porcelli
· 2 months ago
Having access to the data is an important step, but if you don't have direction or suggestions on what to do, nor have a community to rally with you, the data does not do much more than scare people as evident in this thread of comments.
Check out what we are doing in Boston - we've embedded the crimereports.com tool in our zone groups in our neighborhood social network. We get data, come up with a plan, and them educate and mobilize each other. Check us out - http://jamaicaplain.neighborsforneighbors.org/g...
andersunz
· 1 month ago
Seems to make us safer, but are there downsides? Can't criminals and other misintentioned, tech savvy users also use these same technologies to their advantage?
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