December 25, 2006
YouTube Helps Police Find Suspect
Police in the Southern Ontario city of Hamilton said...that they uploaded a one-minute, 12-second clip from a surveillance tape onto the video-sharing YouTube site. The video, which showed suspects arriving at a local nightclub for a Sean Price hip-hop concert... was viewed more than 30,000 times
"This is the first time Hamilton police have utilized video web posting in an investigation, and to the best of its knowledge, the first time that law enforcement has ever used it as a direct investigative tool," Staff Sgt. Jorge Lasso told a news conference.
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~Contrary to the above article, the video has been removed by the user.
The article doesn't say how long the video ran. Or how many hits it received before local tv news(?) reported on it. I'm guessing the Hamilton police had mainstream news media help getting their YouTube video seen.
How about planting jumbotrons near freeways, in shopping malls and major retail stores connected to police departments on which images of wanted criminals, missing children, suspects and other law enforcement concerns are broadcasted continuously?
[photo google: jumbotron\ not from above or YouTube]