Policing in the United States has experienced a watershed of technological innovation that has impacted all facets of police activities: ., investigations, crowd control, and hazards emergency management. Many of these innovations have been adapted from other industries such as the military or private security. Unlike the information that is typically released from traditional media outlets, social media is an integrated, real-time technology that is becoming so pervasive in our culture that certain law enforcement agencies have adopted the use of social media into their regular operations to deliver various policing services to the communities they serve. While other technologies.
