BUFFSCAN
Buffalo Police Social Media Interactionists Wanted
05/19/2023
Ever since it's been possible for people to circulate Ring Doorbell-style video clips of low level criminal actors stealing packages and committing vandalism and the like, I've wondered, do police roam those posts and take notes? Is there any demonstrative curiosity prompting them to scroll through those postings?
The answer is probably yes. Though I would guess it is just to tie some happestance of some bottom-feeder criminal to a larger crime actually worth spending resources on.
But do they interact with the public while they are doing this? Are they assuring in an official social media comment-injected post, "Hey, we're here, we're watching, we're interested, and thank you for posting this!"
That's where the answer is probably not. Or at least that I've ever seen insfofar as Buffalo city postings.
Well, here's an example out of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania where I routinely monitor the Ring Neighbors app of my old neighborhood there, because I'm just nuts. It shows off exactly what I'm talking about. People post their vids of porch pirates and what-not, and a detective caters to the public imagination that police care and are in the obvious place checking evidence where evidence is most contributed.
I think it would be great to develop the work flow and assign a social media ambassador to "patrol" these types of feeds and forums with the aim of creating a logically expected presence.
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