LAW ENFORCEMENT'S NEWEST WEAPON: Internet Scanning and Use of Social Media for In-Progress Crime.

The article focuses on Internet scanning and the use of social media and smartphone technology on in-progress crime. It discusses the Community Protection Network (Compronet), a project in Netherlands designed to aid civilians, police, incorporated technology to cooperate by collecting and sharing information when a crime occur. It says that complex event processing (CEP) engine is the key architecture of Compronet. It adds that its success hinges on transparency between civilians and police.