Cops using YouTube to find criminals

YouTube has no way of knowing how often police tap into its videos to make arrests, company spokesman Scott Rubin said, but police across the country say they are increasingly using YouTube and other online social networks to root out criminals. USA Today reports.

... In November, police in Minneapolis and St. Paul, arrested four people for assault after seeing videos they had posted of themselves, Minneapolis police spokesman Jesse Garcia said. "For many years, they've had (the television show) America's Dumbest Criminals," Garcia said. "It's people like this that feed that."

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