Greater Manchester Police tweeting names, dates of birth and addresses of looters - Polidicks

[QUOTE]As you may already know, names, dates of birth and addresses of convicted criminals are all public record in the UK. It’s been customary for these things to be published for years. What’s not common, however, is to see them broadcast on Twitter. The Greater Manchester Police [GMP], however, seem to be [URL="https://twitter.com/#!/gmpolice/status/101715057209122816"]doing just that[/URL].As more people are being convicted of looting during the riots that have plagued London and other areas across the country over the past few days, the GMP have taken to Twitter perhaps in order to make sure that nobody confuses the convicted with an innocent person of the same name. Of course, it could be that the GMP is simply publishing the information in order to show the public that they are indeed making arrests. Facing facts, there would be nothing worse than coming home to your wife screaming at you for having been convicted of looting when you weren’t. [IMG]http://cdn.thenextweb.com/uk/files/2011/08/Screen-Shot-2011-08-11-at-1.38.19-PM-520x250.png[/IMG]This news comes in the wake of the fact that the UK government [URL="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/11/uk-govt-to-meet-facebook-twitter-and-rim-about-their-responsibility-to-not-fuel-riots/"]is looking at[/URL]whether it’s the right idea to block access to social media during times of “emergency”. While we do know that police are [URL="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/09/police-use-flickr-to-identify-london-riot-suspects/"]using Flickr[/URL] to identify looters, there’s no word yet on precisely how effective that method has been. The question that ultimately comes to mind is one of safety for the convicted, and whether or not they should have an expected right to it. While publishing names and information in a local newspaper might be every bit as public, the extent of Twitter’s reach seems to place the information into a considerably wider view. [I]A tip of the hat to Tom from [URL="http://www.winrumors.com/"]WinRumors[/URL] for the heads up.[/I][/QUOTE] [URL="http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/11/greater-manchester-police-tweeting-names-dates-of-birth-and-addresses-of-looters/"]http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/08/11/greater-manchester-police-tweeting-names-dates-of-birth-and-addresses-of-looters/ C[/URL]atch those bastards.

But he just wanted to play music : (

[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;31691116]But he just wanted to play music : ([/QUOTE] Then he should have stolen a stereo or somethin :rock:

Good, fuck any idiot who takes advantage of shit like this to be the most horrible person they can, thinking they'll just be forgotten and get away with it.

[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;31691116]But he just wanted to play music : ([/QUOTE] [i]While the city burned, and chaos ensnared all life around them, he and his comrades were preparing to assemble a makeshift orchestra that would play on to the end.[/i] :v: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHsx1cvACkY[/media]

[quote=GM Police Twitter] Just locked up another man for stolen goods after he bragged on Facebook he couldn't be caught. Wrong.[/quote] Lol.

The Greater Manchester Police is best Police

Impaling virtual heads on stakes and putting them on display. I fucking like that, these douchebags deserve everything.

Way to go GMP! :D

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azhs2vP4Nu0[/media] I imagine there's a lot of people shitting themselves right now.

"We outlived the riots, and the chavs. Brace for anal impact"

Whaddup my thug homeboys I stole a motherfucking Violin.

[QUOTE=Docc;31695835][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azhs2vP4Nu0[/media] I imagine there's a lot of people shitting themselves right now.[/QUOTE] What's with the bobblehead in background?

I think people who get arrested for the looting should be named and shamed.

Fuck the police. They're the reason the riot started.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31698340]Fuck the police. They're the reason the riot started.[/QUOTE] I thought people just wanted to blow up cars and cause civil disrupt?

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31698340]Fuck the police. They're the reason the riot started.[/QUOTE] Please trip in front of a bus.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31698340]Fuck the police. They're the reason the riot started.[/QUOTE] yah, fuck the police, fuck them for firing back when they were being shot at.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31698340]Fuck the police. They're the reason the riot started.[/QUOTE] For your own sake please educate yourself

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31698340]Fuck the police. They're the reason the riot started.[/QUOTE] [img]https://7chan.org/w/src/128080298493.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=BurnBlackJay;31698736]For your own sake please educate yourself[/QUOTE] Am I wrong in saying that the riot started because the police shot a black man? I know this happens in the US all the time, but that's no excuse. The US should do something about out of control cops as well.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31699015]Am I wrong in saying that the riot started because the police shot a black man? I know this happens in the US all the time, but that's no excuse. The US should do something about out of control cops as well.[/QUOTE] No, that's why a protest started. The riot started because people wanted free shit.

There's a lot of different sides to the causes of the riots, but some of the reasons behind the looting and criminal damage is simply astounding.

[QUOTE=UberMensch;31699070]There's a lot of different sides to the causes of the riots, but some of the reasons behind the looting and criminal damage is simply astounding.[/QUOTE] I was just reading an article on Scientific American about the "mob mentality". [url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rabble-with-a-cause[/url] [quote] Reicher explains: "Crowd events tend to be mixed events with some people who do intend to be violent and some who don't. The response of authorities is to see the group as a whole as dangerous. At that point, precisely those people not originally violent have the experience of being treated with hostility and often physical force. Under those circumstances, they see the police as illegitimate and violence escalates." [/quote]

I'm talking about some of the interviews given to people taking part in the riots, one of them was literally some guy saying "they always stoppin us innit, gettin in our way, this is us showin them we take no shit". Has it occurred to them that if they didn't act so suspicious in the first place, they wouldn't get trouble from the police? Let's be honest, the kind of people who are doing the rioting are the kind of people who WOULD be up to something anyway. Then they wreck a bunch of real innocent businesses for their own gain and cause untold amounts of damage, when the country (and indeed the western world due to the USA's stock collapse) is already heading for more trouble. Tell me how that makes any sense at all? There's nothing wrong with protesting, but taking it to the extremes of rioting in what's actually quite a nice country to live in is simply insane.

[QUOTE=UberMensch;31698169]I think people who get arrested for the looting should be named and shamed.[/QUOTE] This is a poor idea. Arrest them and sentence them appropriately, but don't make it so that they have to trudge through life in eternal shame for this.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;31699432]This is a poor idea. Arrest them and sentence them appropriately, but don't make it so that they have to trudge through life in eternal shame for this.[/QUOTE] And why should they not trudge through life in eternal shame for doing what they did?

[QUOTE=Randdalf;31699547]And why should they not trudge through life in eternal shame for doing what they did?[/QUOTE] How on earth are criminals supposed to become productive members of society again (Read: so that they aren't just as prone to crime as they were before) if any crimes they commit are held over them where ever they go?

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;31699432]This is a poor idea. Arrest them and sentence them appropriately, but don't make it so that they have to trudge through life in eternal shame for this.[/QUOTE] with the number of looters, I don't think they'll be suffering "eternal" shame. people become different and move on, hopefully. only the repeat offenders shall suffer eternal shame, or so I hope

With all new fancy social networking, now they need a new tagline something like "Catching crims and locking them up... ...in your community"