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Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

andersunz — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:39:58 -0000

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?

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Joseph Porcelli — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:32:08 -0000

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...

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Tewodros Adnew — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:33:31 -0000

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Russ — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:07:37 -0000

awesome article. maybe they can't monetize it, but social media is actually good for something.

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Maritza — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:54:06 -0000

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.

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

ginote — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:08:31 -0000

I think if a lot of people check out @clubdistrict they will be pretty amazed what is going to happen http://bit.ly/1e1F3f

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

People Search — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:51:23 -0000

All are very interesting uses of social networking data.

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Kimberly Otsuka — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:32:29 -0000

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.

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

michael von hulsebus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:32:26 -0000

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...

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Evan Thornton — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:48:06 -0000

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.

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Jessica Ehan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:18:59 -0000

wow! I didnt know there are tools like these!

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Ohad Eder Pressman — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:53:51 -0000

Here are some direct appsto.re URLs for the various SpotCrime apps:

http://appsto.re/spotcrimeS...
http://appsto.re/spotcrimeNYC
http://appsto.re/spotcrimeL...
http://appsto.re/spotcrimeC...
http://appsto.re/spotcrimeB...

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

vegas — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:42:00 -0000

I rather use common sense. If there are guys drug dealing in front of my house - I move.

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

kachingkaching — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:39:56 -0000

wow it feels good to have a neighborhood watch

http://kaching-kaching.info

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Carl - Amazing Cigar Bargains — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:23:15 -0000

The more I look at these sorts of things, the more I hate my neighborhood. I have got to move!

Re: Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

Tom Guard — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:14:13 -0000

...and tracking hurricanes, contra-flow, evacuations and open gas stations. http://twitter.com/trackhur...