SMILE Conference 2024 – Social Media In Law Enforcement
SMILE Conference 2024 – Social Media In Law Enforcement
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I read comic books. I love superheroes and anything geeky. I love movie references, pop culture, and things with character. I don’t own a pair of plain dress socks nor do I think that bow ties are a thing of the past. I spend a lot of my time on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit.com and I was once an internationally awarded and published photographer and graphic designer. I happen to also be a cop, the original #TwitterCop.
The Riley County Police Department started its Twitter account in 2009 and within 6 tweets it went silent. There were 53 followers when I was hired in 2010 and overall the department’s online presence wasn’t anything to write home about. My command staff saw this as an area that we could improve in and realizing that the majority of our jurisdiction was young (nearly mirroring the demographic of Twitter users); they decided to allow me and several others at the department the opportunity to breathe life int
We redesigned our website (RileyCountyPolice.org) and started using Twitter and Facebook on a regular basis. So much so that our community started to ask who was responsible for the tweets. This (at the time) unnamed officer was dubbed the Twitter Cop and quickly we had community members trying to figure out this cop’s true identity. This nickname quickly became the online and public speaking persona “#TwitterCop.”
SMILE Conference 2024 – Social Media In Law Enforcement
SMILE Conference 2024 – Social Media In Law Enforcement
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