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Monday, March 21, 2011

Youtube: Law Enforcements New Best Friend

Who needs to go looking for evidence these days when you can just find it on YouTube?

Today, many youth boast about crimes they have committed via YouTube. Hopefully they will think twice after this story:

Four teen boys from Scottsdale, Arizona posted a video of their gang vandalizing property with the title boasting, ""Hey, this is basicly (sic) just a video of us breaking stuff." The video displayed these boys smashing their skate boards into vending machines and looting all of the candy out of them.Another shot showed one of these hooligans smashing into a front windshield of a car and finishing it off with his foot.

About a month after the video was posted on YouTube; the children were detained by local authorities who identified their faces from the video. Now they are facing charges in Maricopa County Juvenile Court for robbery and criminal damage.



So who's laughing now boys?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0321sr-vandals0322ON.html

12 comments:

  1. Wow, this is very interesting news. I find that Youtube is like a promiseland for anyone who want to look for a fame. Although I admit that there are many people post videos on youtube for their own interest and sharing with people, how many percentage is there for this purpose. Has anyone done/known any reseach about the reason people use youtube?

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  2. Heres some stats that might interest you:
    -on April 23, 2005 the first Youtube video was uploaded
    -March 2010, 24 hours of video uploaded per minute
    -2 Billion views per day (70 percent are not U.S. citizens)
    -Avereage person spends 15 mins a day on Youtube
    check some mmore out at this website: http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/17/youtube-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/

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  3. HA, this is great! I bet the police love when the Criminals come to them! A lot of people have adapted to the internet and post everything for a good laugh or just to get a response, but if it will help immature kids from breaking the law again, that works too! How big is "law enforcement" on the internet and how have they used this in other ways to catch people doing various crimes? Also, does this break any of the privacy laws or other laws for that matter?

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  4. Wow! Might as well had turned themselves in right after damaging the property! I mean hy would you post anything like that for the world to see? I agree that youtube is the law enforcement's best friend...as well as facebook. I have seen quite a few people post things on facebook about doing illegal drugs, robbing someone, etc.

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  5. I agree with Sharonique. It's amazing what people are willing to put up for display on the internet. It serves these kids, and any others who get caught, right that the police found them and they were punished. They shouldn't have been doing it in the first place, but to add to their stupidity, they were just asking to get caught by posting it for all to see on YouTube. You'd think people would learn from stories like this, but I'm fairly certain they don't.

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  6. Along with this topic of getting evidence through youtube, I'm sure everyone has heard about the "Teen Mom 2" mom fight that was caught on camera. The teen mom got into a fight with another teen and the video footage was sold and leaked all over the internet. The news report I watched on this event said that the police would not have been able to press multiple charges on the teens if it wasn't caught on type. Video evidence is proving to be very crucial.

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  7. Haha this is great. Not the smartest people in the world. The police is everywhere now with the increased sources for valuable information such as the internet.

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  8. Justice is served. I'm glad they were prosecuted for their criminal actions. There is a similar story that a person uploaded a video on youtube of a girl throwing puppies in the river. Animal cruelty uploaded on youtube. Luckily the Bosnian police caught her. I can't bear watching it, but if you want to know more here is the website,

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015154-504083.html
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015545-504083.html

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  9. Mark thanks for sharing this! I'll definitely take a look at it.

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  10. I actually don't get on Youtube. I don't have time to sit around watching what other people do with their lives, definately not ignorant videos such as that one. I'm glad they got caught. It serves them right for being stupid enough to put it on the internet. I guess they weren't thinking about the police having access to youtube!

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  11. I agree with Amelia, this has to make the job of the police officers a cake walk. This is like something straight out of dumb crook news.

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  12. Obviously people have not understood the concept of self incrimination. Anything you post on facebook our youtube is fair game! dumb stuff.

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