Social Media is a useful tool to fight crime.

Kent, J. (2012, November 16) Police Scan Social Media to Fight Crime. NBC Connecticut. Retrieve from http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?expire=&title=Police+Scan+Social+Media+to+Fight+Crime+|+NBC+Connecticut&urlID=496135002&action=cpt&partnerID=1127115&cid=179734571&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcconnecticut.com%2Finvestigations%2FFacebook-Twitter-Instagram-Social-Media-Police-179734571.html

Connecticut's police departments are now tracking post, pictures, and check-in's in applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc,. to solve crimes.  The best information used by criminal investigators are friends and followers that people have whose privacy settings are not very secure for their privacy.  Police take everything that the social media has offer them to stop crimes, but while police use there tools, criminals have these tools as well at their bidding.  In the police departments they have a squad of officers called matrix officers whom build undercover profiles  and interact with criminals online.  Captain Geoff Morgan from the Branford Police Department tells us that in the past two years, social media is a useful tool to gather evidence and suspects towards cases.