{"id":44606,"date":"2009-11-19T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091117\/0053476960.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-19T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T07:01:00","slug":"oh-look-some-police-do-know-how-to-use-craigslist-as-a-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44606","title":{"rendered":"Oh Look, Some Police Do Know How To Use Craigslist As A Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We keep hearing stories of law enforcement officials, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090305\/1137094010.shtml\">Sheriff Thomas Dart<\/a> of Cook County Illinois, trying to <i>blame<\/i> Craigslist for the actions of its users, rather than recognizing that Craigslist can be a great tool for actually monitoring and tracking down crime.  <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20070905\/001541.shtml\">Some<\/a> are realizing this, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ericgoldman.org\/\" >Eric Goldman<\/a> point us to the latest example of this.  Police in Palo Alto, California (right in the heart of Silicon Valley, so it&#8217;s a good sign that they get this), used a Craigslist ad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mv-voice.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=2170\" >to help track down a bicycle thief<\/a>.  This is, obviously, a rather simple example, but it does make you wonder why more law enforcement agencies don&#8217;t regularly do similar things.  It has to be better than suing (or threatening to sue) Craigslist for the activities of its users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091117\/0053476960.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091117\/0053476960.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091117\/0053476960&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=90c4238eaa3cd15f4832a17dd235c068&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=90c4238eaa3cd15f4832a17dd235c068&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=tHeyU5Qzers:FdH5jwxJXzw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=tHeyU5Qzers:FdH5jwxJXzw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=tHeyU5Qzers:FdH5jwxJXzw:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/tHeyU5Qzers\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We keep hearing stories of law enforcement officials, such as Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook County Illinois, trying to blame Craigslist for the actions of its users, rather than recognizing that Craigslist can be a great tool for actually monitoring and tracking down crime. Some are realizing this, and Eric Goldman point us to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}