Social networking sites are great for meeting new people and having some fun, but don’t let that fun kill your career. Dean Scoville is Associate Editor of Police Magazine and a retired patrol supervisor and investigator with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Sgt. Dean Scoville has received multiple awards for government service. This article...
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A month or two ago I was standing in my kitchen watching a live report on CNN about a bus that had gone off the road in the Atlanta area. It being in their backyard, CNN was all over it. I stood there wondering ‘why all the fuss?’ Of course, in the beginning it...
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There’s been lots of great attention given to Twitter lists recently, and for good reason. It’s the best thing to happen to Twitter in a very long time (when time is calculated in Twitter time that is). So what if you’re a cop and there’s someone on Twitter that might be someone you want...
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This is a guest post by my friend and colleague Christa M. Miller, co-author of Cops2point0. The first time I ever heard someone in law enforcement use the term “the public,” I was struck by how—well, general it sounded. Maybe it was the dispatcher’s neutral tone, or the fact that I was a newly...
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I was honored to have been invited, this past summer, by Twitter Superstar Jeff Pulver to create and moderate a panel on law enforcement use of Twitter for his 140 Characters Conference in Los Angeles. The conference was October 27th and 28th at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. As I contemplated who should be...
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I spent nearly the entire weekend going through the people and organizations I follow on Twitter, segmenting them into lists. It was a tedious task, but in the end, a bit cathartic. Now, I can see the police departments I follow with a click of one button. Before I had to download my entire...
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Recently, it was my pleasure to sit down with Mario Plante, the Assistant-Directeur Chef de service at the Montreal Police Service (SPVM-Service de police de la ville de Montreal). Plante explained his title as “# three in charge”. We chatted about SPVM’s plans to integrate social media into its operations. Earlier in the year,...
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It’s called social media for a reason: I’m working on a study of hundreds of law enforcement agencies on Twitter and a few things are jumping right out of the pile. By looking only at Twitter this go-round, I have these three observations and suggestions for how police agencies can improve their Twitter presence...
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Note: I’ve been writing a lot about the Toronto Police Service lately and thought I should diversify a bit. But, I’ve decided I’m going to go ahead and write more about TPS for several reasons: 1) TPS has many great success stories about their use of social media 2) they don’t seem to mind telling...
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Police in Toronto, Ontario (TPS) are looking for a murderer and are currently waging an all-out online effort in social media to find him. When Zabiullah Mojaddedi intervened in a street robbery last month, two men opened fire on him. One arrest has been made. Tristan Lall, 25, was on a lifetime court-ordered ban...
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