For a long time, social media has been a great tool for law enforcement trying to track gang members' crimninal deeds. Here's a good example.
Tresa Baldas of the Detroit Free Press reports that the feds in Detroit have indicted 12 members of a Detroit street gang known as Rollin 60s Crips, whose, members advertised their criminal activity on social media. The local gang is part of a national street gang that was founded in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and eventually spread to Detroit
Baldas writes:
According to an indictment handed down today, Facebook helped authorities bust the gang as members posted incriminating messages of all sorts on their pages, including one man who offered to pay any Rollin 60s Crips member $100 to kill a rival gang member; another who advertised on Facebook his sale of ecstacy, while another posted the price of his drugs.
The indictment charges the 12 members of the gang with being part of a racketeering conspiracy that involves carjackings, robberies, assaults and drug deals across northwest Detroit. Eight of the defendants are from Detroit, one is from West Bloomfield, the other three are from out of state. The bust is part of an ongoing effort by the Detroit One Collaboration, a task force of local, state and federal law enforcement officers that has arrested 75 gang members, including leaders, over the last two years.
