Summary: An article on abc news entitled, “New Social Network for Law Enforcement to Launch” by Terry Collins from Associated Press sheds some light on an upcoming social networking site called, BlueLine. This new tool is planned to be released to a select group of people sometime in October of this year. Those allowed to use this tool are none other than the ladies and gentlemen in our country's uniform. Similar to Facebook or Google+ I suppose, BlueLine will give officers and other members of Law Enforcement a chance to share information, stories, chat, post power points and more. All these interactions and information of course will be secured and not visible to the public. The hope is this site will allow officers to interact around the country and become more of a union to help control crime and keep citizens safe.
Analysis: The idea that cops can discuss work related information over the internet privately could very well bring up some controversy, mainly in regards to citizen 'privacy'. In my opinion though, its an officers job to dig up your information in order to potentially 'catch the bad guy'. It's their job to do this and doing this job over the internet privately or in person doesn't make it any different. Also in recent years Law Enforcement locally versus federal has had some miscommunication issues. BlueLine could be the tool that fixes this problem through connecting officers in the fastest way possible. Overall, just being an ordinary citizen, I can't really give too much background on interactions of Law Enforcement, but I can say that officers need communication and if we have the technology to allow them to communicate faster why shouldn't they take use of it?
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I agree completely. We have this brilliant technology at our fingertips; why not utilize it for the sake of law enforcement and crime prevention?
ReplyDeleteI also agree. Technology is for everyone so why shouldn't they be able to use it. It'll make they're job easier as well as help them things go faster.
ReplyDeleteLetting officers privately chat about their jobs (to me) seems like they now have a way to make fun of all the idiots they pull over or arrest. Also, what happens if someone can hack into blueline and read all confidential things of officers? although this brings unity to our protectors of our country, it brings some skepticism-- it might not be strictly work
ReplyDeleteI think there could be positive and negative effects to this Blueline. Like Devon said if someone was able to hack into this social network, private information would be shared all over the internet. However if it is indeed safe, it would be a huge help to advancing this day and age's law enforcement.
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