Twitter, Where's My Car?

By at 8:50 am Thursday, Dec 2

Seattle police use a dedicated Twitter account to report the details of verified car thefts. It's crowdsourcing police work! Police in other cities have tried this, but Seattle has a bizarrely high car theft rate, partly due to a logistical problem in the courts in which car thieves are routinely charged with misdemeanors and released.

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Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman, @glennf, a Seattle-based freelance writer, is "G.F." at the Economist's Babbage blog, a regular panel member on the geeky media podcast The Incomparable, a senior contributor to Macworld magazine, a columnist for The Seattle Times, and an object-oriented perl programmer.

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