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Law enforcement agencies were quick to adopt crowdsourcing.
Law enforcement agencies were quick to adopt crowdsourcing. In the fall of 2006 Texas set up the "Virtual Neighborhood Border Watch Program; One detective employed crowdsourcing (and playing cards!) to crack cold cases; and late last year the FBI announced a plan to turn 150 digital billboards into massive wanted posters. It's a natural fit, and hardly unprecedented. Think of that standby of old Westerns, the posse or—more ominously—the Stasi's persuading one half of the East German populace to spy on the other half. Crowdsourcing Uber Alles!
Which brings us to our first link of the day: UCrime, which takes campus crime data and maps it using a GoogleMap API, representing each category of crime with a cute little icon (did anyone ever really put money in a bag with a dollar sign on it?) Sound familiar? That's because Adrian Holovaty got hella props when he did the same thing with a far larger data set, creating the seminal ChicagoCrime.org (since folded into Holovaty's hyper-local journalism company, EveryBlock). Ever since programmers and journalists alike have gone dotty over data-feeds.
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