Police Realizing Craigslist Is A Resource, Not A Problem
from the well,-that's-good dept
Last month, we noted that Atlanta's mayor was wrongly blaming Craigslist for child prostitution, saying that Craigslist needed to take responsibility for preventing that kind of activity. The problem, of course, is that Craigslist isn't to blame. It's merely the platform. Not only that, by being such a popular platform it should have made it easier for police to target those who were actually doing something wrong. In fact, it looks like many other areas of the country realize that Craigslist is actually quite a useful tool. Police in a variety of places have now learned to track down those who are breaking the law on Craigslist. They aren't blaming the site, but recognizing how it helps them better capture criminals. It's nice to know that the misguided views of Atlanta's mayor aren't widespread.
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by RandomThoughts on Sep 5th, 2007 @ 11:59am
In the original article it stated that Atlanta police use Craigslist to catch criminals.
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by sam on Sep 5th, 2007 @ 11:59am
ok mike....
i took your bait.. and read the article in the NY Times. No where in the article did anyone on the law enforcement side claim that they look at CL as a good thing/tool regarding crime/prostitution.
In fact, the flavor of the article was that they would rather that CL not allow these kinds of postings at all!!! (Along with other sites.. as indicated in other similar articles.)
So mike.. tell us, where do you find law enforcement contacts/voices who like what CL is doing, and look at it in a positive light, as opposed to their wishing the erotic/prostitution posting weren't on the site at all.
you gotta do better with your analysis. if my child did this kind of work, she wouldn't make it out of 8th grade!!
puhleeze!
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by bilbo on Sep 5th, 2007 @ 12:18pm
Who cares?
Prostitution should be legal anyways.
You've been totally brainwashed by feminism.
Disconnect, my friend.
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by RandomThoughts on Sep 5th, 2007 @ 12:30pm
To be fair, Mike didn't say anyone in law enforcement was blaming Craigslist, he wrote that the Mayor did.
That being said, using Craigslist to catch criminals is pretty close to using Iraq to fight terrorists. Doesn't mean that both couldn't use some cleaning up.
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by John Canada on Sep 5th, 2007 @ 1:14pm
A web group that I belong to that has a large classified section has this disclaimer on each page
[i]"ANY & ALL information linked to illegal activities (stolen items etc) can be and will be used in prosecution as evidence. [/i]
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Re: by Mike on Sep 5th, 2007 @ 1:19pm
Sam, it amazes me that you constantly misread what I write.
No where in the article did anyone on the law enforcement side claim that they look at CL as a good thing/tool regarding crime/prostitution.
I never said it was "a good thing." I said that police are recognizing they can use it to catch criminals, rather than simply driving the criminals further underground.
Is it that hard to understand the difference?
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Re: Re: by Anonymouse on Sep 5th, 2007 @ 2:28pm
Cut him some slack Mike, after all he only has an 8th grade education.
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by sam on Sep 6th, 2007 @ 10:05am
mike...
reread your article.. what you stated, was that "...it looks like many other areas of the country realize that Craigslist is actually quite a useful tool..."
your implication is that police view CL in a rather positive note with regards to dealing with prostitution/crime. you might argue that this is simply aruging subtleties. i would argue that it's simply another of your spin articles..
peace...
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Re: well... by name on Sep 6th, 2007 @ 12:02pm
then leave u f'in moron
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by sam on Sep 6th, 2007 @ 12:27pm
>>>Re: well... by name on Sep 6th, 2007 @ 12:02pm
then leave u f'in moron
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Re: did you actually read it though?? by mike on Mar 29th, 2008 @ 8:32am
Sam you said you read the whole article, did you miss about 75% of it then?:
"Augmenting traditional surveillance of street walkers, massage parlors, brothels and escort services, investigators are now hunching over computer screens to scroll through provocative cyber-ads in search of solicitors."
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by hungryfarm on Apr 27th, 2008 @ 9:16am
craigs list assists local purchasing of farmers fresh foods some have no idea re at their area!
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