Hello Officer YouTube

So police now have recruited YouTube to aid in investigations? I guess everything really does make it online. A police officer used YouTube to find two men who were using stolen credit cards at Home Depot. The officer was depending solely on the information passed from those watching the video taken from the store to identify those men involved.

His reasoning was that it was not hard for anyone to click a button and watch a video. It seems strange at first but actually several police departments use YouTube to catch criminals. Is YouTube being recruited alongside the Law? The idea is already scrutinized. A few problems such as misidentification, false tips, privacy infringment, misleads, deadends, and how to make one single video seem important amongst the hundreds and thousands that are uploaded throughout the week are just the first of many more things experts are questioning relying more heavily on such a thing as YouTube. Will YouTube make a new catergory all for law enforcement specifically...hmm who knows what is next.

The officer involved in catching the two criminals with the credit cards would give the congragulations all to old fashioned police work rather than the site despite its reaching many.