Everyone these days uses Twitter, either to communicate with his or her friends and family or to find people that share their interests.

1. Tweet Leads to Arrest in Boston Bus Beating
Everyone these days uses Twitter, either to communicate with his or her friends and family or
to find people that share their interests. While a lot of tweets by the younger generations fall
into the mundane, Albert Galloway Jr., 18, used the messaging platform to boast about beating
a Boston bus driver. His self-incriminating Tweet: “My hands hurts (sic) from last night.”
At 1:20 a.m. Saturday, March 9, Galloway was one of 15 teens who waved down a Route 16 bus
in Dorchester, causing its driver to think “something bad had occurred.” When the driver pulled
over, the teenagers stormed the bus and proceeded to violently assault the driver. Three days
later, on March 12, a tipster told transit cops that he overheard a teen named “A.J.” talking
about the attack. When police visited Albert’s house, they learned that he boasted on Twitter
about his hands hurting 13 hours after the assault.
Social media is quickly gaining importance as a source of valuable, timely information after a
crime has taken place. The Real Time Crime Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico (pictured
above) actively monitors tweets and social media. They are also outfitting their officers with
iPads and PublicEye, Zco Corporation’s public safety solution. PublicEye displays to first
responders important, timely information in an intuitive graphical interface (screenshot below).
Further, PublicEye can monitor all geo-tagged tweets at any location. This means that instead of
having to wait days or receive a “tip”, officers can immediately scour nearby social media
postings for relevant keywords and images after an incident.

2. With the addition of the Vine app for Twitter, anyone with a smartphone can tweet text,
pictures, and now video and be seen instantly. What if that viral video of an incident could be
seen by authorities not the day after, but immediately after its posting? With PublicEye and
your help, we can slash response times and collaborate for improved public safety. For more
information on our public safety solution, please see our PublicEye page.
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