‘Basically Cyberbullying’: How Cops Abuse Social Media to Publicly Humiliate Law enforcement agencies are creating online content, often at the expense of people they have arrested. Hope Corrigan
Why Keeping People With Sex Offense Convictions Off Social Media Sites Does Little To Make Those Sites Safer New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal purports to take sexual violence seriously, but it aggressively ignores reality in favor of lazy solutions. Guy Hamilton-Smith
Boston Law Enforcement Has Been Fighting A Court Order To Release Data On Who Police Target On Snapchat District Attorney Rachael Rollins ran as a reformer who would work to increase transparency, but her office and the police department have been fighting the order. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Spotlight: In A Study of Cops’ Facebook Accounts, 1 in 5 Had Posted Racist, Violent Content Vaidya Gullapalli
Doxxed By Berkeley Police Critics say the Berkeley Police Department’s unusual practice of posting anti-fascist protesters’ mugshots on Twitter endangers activists and violates free speech rights. Scott Morris
Meet ‘Bob Smith,’ The Fake Facebook Profile Memphis Police Allegedly Used To Spy On Black Activists New records obtained by the Appeal show the account seems to have been monitoring Black Lives Matter activists for years. George Joseph
Memphis Police Collected Black Lives Matter Activists’ Private Facebook Posts Police appear to have used a fake Facebook account to 'friend' activists and archive who 'liked' their posts. George Joseph
How Philadelphia’s Social Media-Driven Gang Policing Is Stealing Years From Young People Max Rivlin-Nadler
