{"id":897,"date":"2009-04-18T07:22:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T11:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=897"},"modified":"2009-04-20T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:00:06","slug":"police-department-twitters-you-once-they-arrest-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/police-department-twitters-you-once-they-arrest-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Department Twitters You Once They Arrest You"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Q: &#8220;Are You On Twitter?&#8221; A: &#8220;Not Till the Denton Cops Booked Me for Possession.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<div class=\"body\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/p>\n<p>Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dentonpolice\">Denton Police Department&#8217;s Twitter page<\/a> this afternoon, we knew we&#8217;d found something truly special.<\/p>\n<p>With automated posts for everyone booked at the jail since Sunday night, the feed comes complete with a person&#8217;s mug shot, age and what they were booked for. It&#8217;s enough to make us forget all about Craigslist&#8217;s Missed Connections.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Clicking through the mug shots on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/photos\/DentonPolice\">TwitPic<\/a> is like strolling through a portrait exhibit on resignation and regret. It&#8217;s a remarkable leap in open government and connecting to the community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dallasobserver.com\/unfairpark\/2009\/04\/q_are_you_on_twitter_a_not_til.php\">Police Department Twitters You Once They Arrest You<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: &#8220;Are You On Twitter?&#8221; A: &#8220;Not Till the Denton Cops Booked Me for Possession.&#8221; Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the\u00c2\u00a0Denton Police Department&#8217;s Twitter page this afternoon, we knew we&#8217;d found something truly special. With automated posts for everyone booked at the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/police-department-twitters-you-once-they-arrest-you\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,32,8],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->