Netherlands: Caught in World Wide Web:
Two men who robbed a 14-year-old of cash and a cellphone in September were arrested after the victim spotted them in a photo on Google Maps, the Dutch police said Friday. The victim contacted investigators in Groningen in March after he found a photograph in the mapping site's Street View function showing him and his assailants moments before the robbery. "As the faces were unrecognizable, police made contact with Google in the United States and received the original photograph by mail in June," a police statement said. "An investigator immediately recognized one of the suspects." One man confessed, the police said.
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Ten million dollars buys you a lot of police misconduct:
Above: Ferguson police spent the evening dropping tear gas containers on reporters to keep news of police repression from getting out.
The government is finally moving the legal system into the 21st
century, with wiki-based laws. The idea is that the people
are
the customer, and the customer should have a say in the rules.
This is, oddly, a government-sponsored revolution.
Police had cornered a murder suspect. There were negotiations and there was exchange of gunfire.
While it's great that they caught the bad guys, this camera on every corner is a bit spooky to me. Even though this was apparently a non-governmental camera, it still seems too reminiscent of [i]1984[/i] for my liking.