How French police are harnessing social media to identify looters– www.france24.com

France‘s police striving to identify and arrest looters who shattered shops in last weekend’s unrest are relying on one tool to trigger their forensic follow-up: social media.

“We are working the social networks… then we go over all that with our own tools, to see if the crimes seen on social media correspond with the crimes we’re studying,” said an officer seated in a special operations room with 10 screens in front of him.