Cops Are Using Facebook to Catch Shoplifters?!
Washington leads the nation in retail theft — 48% more than a state our size should produce, according to Forbes. Meanwhile, the honest people are pressing buttons and waiting for someone with a key to unlock a $6 wrench.
A 33-officer police department in Bonney Lake decided to stop just accepting it. They run a Facebook page called Can You ID Crime, posting surveillance stills and letting the neighbors do what neighbors used to do. The updates keep coming. "Female has been identified." "Suspects have been identified." Charlie Harger on why this costs nothing, why it's working, and why almost no one else in the state is bothering.
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