Police live-tweeted a drug raid

atlbeer wrote: post #4

nodata wrote: post #3

This has to be fake.

Going to the department website they have a link to the Twitter account being used here http://www.birminghamwestandcentralpolice.org.uk/

Two red flags:

* The British Police have their own .police.uk domain space.

* The ip address is used for shared webhosting and is owned by uk2.net

whois does say "West Midlands Police", but this could be forged.

Either way it's extremely unprofessional and will be shut down by a lawyer soon :)

Re: Police live-tweeted a drug raid

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Post by mtogo » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 3:12 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #5

atlbeer wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going to the department website they have a link to the Twitter account being used here http://www.birminghamwestandcentralpolice.org.uk/

Two red flags: * The British Police have their own .police.uk domain space. * The ip address is used for shared webhosting and is owned by uk2.net whois does say "West Midlands Police", but this could be forged. Either way it's extremely unprofessional and will be shut down by a lawyer soon :)

The police in the UK are not known for their professionalism.

Re: Police live-tweeted a drug raid

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Post by zacgarrett » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 3:12 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #5

atlbeer wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going to the department website they have a link to the Twitter account being used here http://www.birminghamwestandcentralpolice.org.uk/

Two red flags: * The British Police have their own .police.uk domain space. * The ip address is used for shared webhosting and is owned by uk2.net whois does say "West Midlands Police", but this could be forged. Either way it's extremely unprofessional and will be shut down by a lawyer soon :)

Same site with the .police.uk and linking to the same twitter account.

http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/np/birminghamwestandcentr...

Re: Police live-tweeted a drug raid

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Post by gregory80 » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 3:48 PM UTC

Summary: Police live tweet search warrant raid for man. Don't find the man, find some empty bags that appear to have weed in them.

Yeah, real score for the police of the world everywhere. Demonstrates just how silly modern police enforcement is.

Re: Police live-tweeted a drug raid

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Post by maqr » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

I'm impressed that they "get" twitter and were able to tweet the events with pictures in a sensible reporter-like timeline.

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have police doing this sort of thing, but at least it reads well.

Re: Police live-tweeted a drug raid

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Post by shimsham » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 4:25 PM UTC

Is this evidence? Prejudicial? Useful? Or is this community outreach and warnings to criminals, that the police are on their way? And the added distraction of tweeting whilst working? Whatever next? Live police copcasts?