Cyber Crime Fighters: Tales from the Trenches

13Crimes on Camera

The proliferation of social networks such as YouTube, Xanga, Facebook, and Technorati, just to name a few, have opened up a new avenue for criminals as well, not to only share their nasty deeds, but to do it in living color through streaming video. You wouldn’t think that criminals would be so stupid as to put evidence of their crimes on the Internet for all to see, but they do—a lot. Law enforcement is finally catching on.

The Florida Teen Beating

As law enforcement veterans, we’re exposed on a daily basis to things that would disturb most reasonable people, but one recent case left us horrified both as parents and women—the video of the 16-year-old Lakeland, Florida teen who was repeatedly beaten and harassed ...