Bartholomew Roberts
Moderator
USA Today has a short piece on the use of online social networking sites to solve crime:
Nashville criminal defense attorney David Raybin says "The first thing I tell them is, you are shutting down your Facebook account." He cites the increasing use by police of online research to provide critical evidence in criminal investigations.
"Technology has revolutionized law enforcement in many ways," said Jack Rinchich, president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. "Sometimes people are pretty liberal about what they put on (social networking sites)," he said.
The USA Today story doesn't mention it; but just recently a San Francisco man went from murder suspect to being charged after a look at his personal computer revealed that he had been searching for information on how to purchase a handgun illegally, build a silencer, and watching videos of real murders.
Yet another great reminder that anything you say can and will be used against you, even if you say it long before the crime happened.
Nashville criminal defense attorney David Raybin says "The first thing I tell them is, you are shutting down your Facebook account." He cites the increasing use by police of online research to provide critical evidence in criminal investigations.
"Technology has revolutionized law enforcement in many ways," said Jack Rinchich, president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. "Sometimes people are pretty liberal about what they put on (social networking sites)," he said.
The USA Today story doesn't mention it; but just recently a San Francisco man went from murder suspect to being charged after a look at his personal computer revealed that he had been searching for information on how to purchase a handgun illegally, build a silencer, and watching videos of real murders.
Yet another great reminder that anything you say can and will be used against you, even if you say it long before the crime happened.