Many citizens now live their lives through social media, making an incredible amount of detailed information available to police, creating online evidence trails and providing witnesses to crimes. Evidence available online can be sophisticated – the metadata attached to entries often includes the timestamp, device used, and geolocation of the post.
Social media analytics tools can review vast amounts of social media data to uncover patterns and analyse sentiment. By capturing open source intelligence and analysing it, agencies can more adeptly discover trends and monitor threats as they grow in significance, enabling early preventative policing.
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