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Author(s) affiliated with: Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.
Title page states: "This is one in a series of papers that will be published as a result of the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety. Harvard’s Executive Sessions are a convening of individuals of independent standing who take joint responsibility for rethinking and improving society’s responses to an issue. Members are selected based on their experiences, their reputation for thoughtfulness and their potential for helping to disseminate the work of the Session. In the early 1980s, an Executive Session on Policing helped resolve many law enforcement issues of the day. It produced a number of papers and concepts that revolutionized policing. Thirty years later, law enforcement has changed and NIJ and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government are again collaborating to help resolve law enforcement issues of the day. Learn more about the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety at: www.NIJ.gov, keywords "Executive Session Policing" www.hks.harvard.edu, keywords "Executive Session Policing".
Summary
"This paper
discusses the lessons to be learned from BPD’s
use of social media during the marathon bombing
investigation and earlier. However, it is not strictly
or even primarily a case study. It is an effort to
contribute to a broader, ongoing discussion about
police and social media. It is a reflection, in light
of Boston’s experience, on the opportunities
and challenges that social media present to the
police and on the ways in which social media
can help develop new models of policing that are
adapted to our 21st-century world but rooted in
traditions of community engagement stretching
back through the community policing movement
to Robert Peel’s 19th-century goals for a modern
constabulary."--Pages 1-2.