I recently came across an article directed toward cops about proper Facebook etiquette.  A lot of what the article talked about was appropriate to just about anyone: don’t post nude pictures of yourself, don’t bash your boss or department, etc. My favorite was no gun glorification—and especially no pictures of pretty girls holding police-issued guns posing provocatively on marked police cars. It scares me that any officer has to be told that. Guns are supposed to be tools of the job. The officers don’t actually like them, do they?

But on a much more serious note, the law enforcement community is using Facebook to catch and/or identify suspects. A colleague of mine just lost a case thanks to Facebook.

This is how it happened: my attorney friend challenged the prosecution to identity his client, who was the defendant in the case, by having his client come to court with two similar-looking people. The lawyer thought that because the case was from 2007, and the police had no video or even a booking photo, the state would not be able to identify the right person. Instead, the police officer witness got on his smart phone, went to Facebook and found a picture of the client, and was able to identify him.
Pretty amazing. So, watch your Facebook etiquette everyone. See our Facebook page.

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