Crimepush smart phone app. encourages middle & high school kids to spy on fellow students.
Eman Pahlevani, a student at the University of New Hampshire School of Law launched an application last month called CrimePush.
The application allows users to send in reports in the form of text, pictures or video directly to local law enforcement after police dispatch centers set up their accounts with CrimePush.
After the dispatchers have registered, users of Android-based devices and Apple iPhones within the given area are able to download the application dedicated to that location and start sending in tips, no matter how erroneous.
It gets even more interesting when he brings up the possibilities that these could be used in schools, further criminalizing our children and making the public education system an even more efficient school-to-prison pipeline.
“We also are working right now with high schools and middle schools because superintendents in different counties and principals want to use this with students between periods,” Pahlevani said, “so if they go from class to class and they see a fight or they see a drug deal … they can just send it directly to school authorities.”
Authorities in the state of West Virginia are encouraging residents to install an Android and iPhone application that lets alerting law enforcement of suspicious activity become as easy as a click of a button — or, for some smartphone owners, the touch of a screen.
The official government website for the state of West Virginia now prominently features a product available for download on select mobile devices. It’s the Suspicious Activity Reporting mobile application and it lets users type up notes about any mundane yet worrisome incident they witness and send it straight over to local law enforcement. The app even allows the user to capture and upload a photo of someone they might consider suspicious, only to then provide the police with a detailed visual description of someone who may — or may not — be up to no good.
"Through the use of innovative technology our citizens can download the new Suspicious Activity Reporting Application for free and help protect their own communities," Governor Earl Ray Tomblin reasons with the West Virginia State Journal. "With the assistance of our citizens, important information can quickly get into the hands of our law enforcement community allowing them to provide better protection."
http://endthelie.com/2012/03/06/crimepush-yet-another-citizen-spy-application-for-smartphones/#axzz1oAgbqc23
http://rt.com/usa/news/police-west-app-virginia-101/