Law Enforcement And How It Uses Social Media [Infographic]
As social media becomes more and more ingrained in our society and people continue to broadcast their stupid action on places like Facebook and Twitter it is inevitable that law enforcement won’t make use of those same tools to catch the criminals, and criminally stupid.
Even now courts are making extensive use of things like Facebook status updates and even Google searches, but with more police forces becoming a presence on social networks they are also using it to cultivate tips and to track criminal groups.
To give you a bit better of an idea of how the police are using social media the folks at PoliceOne.com put together this interesting infographic.
![Law Enforcement And How It Uses Social Media [Infographic]](http://turbo.fortytwotimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/social-media-law-enforcement.jpeg)
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