In an effort to stifle potential Facebook mishaps, the New York Police Department has told officers to put a silencer on their social media activities. NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly recently ordered the city’s 35,000 officers to not post about their jobs on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or any other social media sites, the New York Daily News reports.
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The New York City Police Department has organized a new unit to track those who brag about their crimes on Facebook.
Police successfully prevented the suicide of a man who’d posted a cry for help on Facebook.
A 20-year-old pedophile who used Facebook to lure over 139 young girls, then sexually abuse them received a ten-year jail sentence on Saturday.
During a 16-hour stand off with police, a Utah man was able to update his profile six times and add at least a dozen new friends, all while holding a hostage.
A 20-year-old Philadelphia woman posted an open offer on Facebook to kill her child’s father to the tune of $1,000. A young Darby, Pennsylvania man responded to the woman by agreeing to carry out the hit.
Houston bank robbers boasted about their $62,000 take on Facebook.
After federal prosecutors charged him with producing child pornography in a blackmail scheme using Facebook, a 34-year-old Kansas city man now faces child porn charges.
Facebook has removed a fan page dedicated to alleged police killer Jamie Hood, as the Georgia police are using the social network to ask the suspect to surrender.
