Hw #6 Police take the fight onto the web

In the article “Police Take the Fight onto the Web” by Brad Stone posted at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/technology/08stream.html?ref=technology in the New York Times. He states that the police is using the internet to find people who commit crimes. He informs that a lot of police agencies are using the web to fight crimes. For example;” posted on Facebook images from a surveillance video that showed three teenagers vandalizing the spa at a local Hilton.” He explains that some teenagers were arrested because they committed a crime and posted on facebook web site. So, with the help of facebook that was easy for the police to find the teenagers who committed the crime. Therefore, the police agencies are using the web as a tool to fight against crimes from wherever point in the globe they are.