Facebook "Like" Leads to Sex Offender Bust

[kburns10]

Well that was a bad choice of girlfriends lol

 

[RedDeadFred]

I literally lol'd at this. You have to be pretty stupid to do something like that.

 

[BX3]

Why does a sex offender have a girlfriend...? Unless she was ignorant to his situation, which I doubt, it kinda blows my mind open.

 

[cerebus23]

As evil as facebook is, also selling your personal information to corporations while you don't see a dime, people are fucking themselves over.

This is why "reasonable expectation of privacy" is changing in lawbooks, people don't give a shit. They'll whine and whine, but keep posting photos of themselves that contain GPS data to a site that profits on their willingness to give up privacy.

Stop using it.

Well 'sex offender' in the crazy US law system can mean anything between a totally innocent victim of stupid prudish Christian laws, to a heinous rapist who really should be locked up, so I've no idea how to feel about this.

Except that the lack of protection of suspect rights in the US again shocks me. Just making pictures like that, full names. Who benefits from that? Nobody.

Some people have been entered into the sex offender registry for urinating on the side of the road, drunkenly or not. Others have been put on because their girlfriend was 15 and they were 18, etc. There is a website, I forget the name.. but it tracks a bunch of "absurd cases" like this. There were many involving "just over and under the legal age of consent" type of charges.

What this means is you get placed on the "registry", forever.. for the rest of your life. It's not something you can hide or ever get rid of as far as I know.

They did mention he was a "dangerous sex offender", so he's probably a "real" one I'm assuming.

A lot of the sex offenders on the list are boys 15 years old and under

http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2009/09/there-is-fury-and-and-sadness-inside.html

Tell it like it is, people are sheep, spin some disaster, like rampant sex offenders, terrorists, illegal aliens, get plastered all over the news 24/7 then pass a bunch of laws that strip your rights even further.

I recall the big crime violent crime thing where even tho violent crime was drastically down, and everything associated with it, there were news stories all over suddenly about the epidemic of violent crime. And politicians talking about the burning need to get tough.

Same thing they do with guns each time some psycho decided to do something psychotic, suddenly there is an "epidemic" of gun crime from the anti gun left, and people wanting to pass more laws on top of the laws we already got that cover things like guns.

America is completely skrewed either way, we are not free, we have 17 trillion worth of debt, social security and medicare are going to flat ass bankrupt in 30ish years, the mid west aquifer is rapidly running out of water and will be bone dry in about 30 years, and the government and all its agencies are buying massive amount of ammunition.

Meanwhile the EU and russia and china want to move the USA off the international monetary status, which would collapse the federal government overnight because they will not be able to print money to even cover their general spending at that point, cannot happen fast enough as far as i am concerned.

Best thing we can do is to get our children the hell out of the USA and ASAP, change your citizenship. really do not care who wins the next election will only be several billion debt difference either way and our debt is so out of control it hardly matters might as well let the guy that is going to destroy this nation faster win.

 

[JdaS]

Yeah... I just recently found out that due to changes in Facebook's UI, I've been posting everything publicly for a while now. Needless to say, I am not amused...

 

[Strazdas]

If you don't want people to know your personal information, then you probably shouldn't be volunteering that information on a social network. Just sayian.

This.

Also how incompetent police officers must be to be unable to find the girlfriends adress when its even on her facebook.

 

[Valanthe]

... but I feel compelled to point out that this really says something about the state of privacy of Facebook. If you're not careful, you have none, and even if you do take care about what you feed into the system, assuming that you have any sort of built-in protection is just asking for trouble. That's okay if you're a wanted criminal, but for the rest of us, it should be a little disconcerting.

Just Facebook? I thought it was a pretty common rule for the entirety of the internet, wasn't there a huge "Stranger Danger-esque" period about it not that long ago?

Either way, it's been a rule of mine that I never post anything on the internet I don't want the world to know, because privacy on the internet is a cake, and we all know what the cake is.

On topic, "Third Degree Sexual Offence" sounds serious, but is pretty vague about what this guy actually did, would be nice to have a little more detail before I make any judgements on how I feel about the case. I do like the "without incident" part though, police get demonized by everything from popular media to ignorant forum posters far too often, and I can say that if they'd have had to use force, there would be people jumping down those officers throats calling them dumb brutes, or wannabe soldiers, or any number of terribly ignorant insults.

 

[TheCaptain]

I'm on Facebook, but just barely. Somebody point out the hole in my logic when you see it...
This 22-year old girl "liked" the local police station Facebook account. Now at that point, someone with access the police account had to see that flag and then go check out her out. On Facebook, you can't see a person's timeline unless they accept you as a friend. Does anybody set their defualt to "make everythign public"? Is that even possible? I went to Samantha Dillow's Facebooks page. I am allowed to look at a couple of her family (I assume) pictures, but there is nothing there that indicated who her boyfriend is.

Well, first of all, it IS possible to make all your information public. It's also extremely common - just type a random name into the search field on facebook - for people with otherwise private profiles to still publicly show "core" information - date of birth, hometown, relationship status...

Tis doesn't feel like a "facebook is evil" story to me. More like a "people are stoopid" story.

How did the police station get from her "Like" to being able to see who her boyfriend is. And then, how the heck did they recognize him as a wanted man? The police Facebook timeline DOES have a listing that they were looking for him the day before (Tuesday the 11th). The pictures of him being brought in are on the 12th.

The police in Hannover, Germany does have facebook page that regularly asks for witnesses and informs about ongoing searches for wanted criminals - they did have some success where facebook users from the area could actually help with investigations, identify perps and whatnot. Stands to reason that the administrator in charge of running the profile would check out new "likes" on the off chance of spotting people who are already in their sights. In this particular case, it's one click from "Samantha Dillow likes your facebook page" to her profile, which in turn says right on top "Samantha Dillow is in a relationship with Dyllan Naecher". Which is a name you've got on your mind since you posted the story about the guy just yesterday.

Hell, it could've even gone like this: "Damn, I wanna check out what the police is posting about their search for me... But if I like the page, they'll find me. Honey, could you...?"

Being in law enforcement is fun when people behave like this.

 

[MetalMagpie]

Why does a sex offender have a girlfriend...? Unless she was ignorant to his situation, which I doubt, it kinda blows my mind open.

A "sex offender" can be anything from a serial rapist to a guy who flashed his privates at an old lady while drunk. This one was probably nearer the latter category? *is only speculating*

Anyway, convicted murderers in jail sometimes get marriage proposals, so there are some weird people in the world!

 

[disgruntledgamer]

Ironically I'd say Facebook probably helps more sex offenders than it helps put away.

 

[Baresark]

I can agree whole heartedly with the final sentiments of this article. Any government agency will use anything at their disposal to get what they want. This time it was a sex offender, in the future it may be any dissenting opinion about current "regimes".

/endparanoia

...I would like to ask the community to join me in thanking the hard working deputies that brought this fugitive in without incident.

We all know they wanted to shoot the guy. A lot of police officers feel they are part of some sort of military operation and love to be able to shoot people with little no repercussions. Cops in Detroit shoot and kill 4 year old girls sleeping on their grandmothers lap. A sex offender has a big target painted on him. They were probably pretty upset about not shooting.

Fwoo, got that off my chest. Now I feel better. The availability heuristic at work is a fine thing.

Either you're being ridiculously hyperbolic, or America is closer to an authoritarian dictatorship than I had thought.

I'm not really, but that does happen. I stated a fact about what happened to that little girl in Detroit, but all governments have a history of using information against people who the state consider to be a dissident. It is just something that historically happens. Like I said, it's not bad it was used to take down a sex offender, but I do think there should be limitations on what governments can use against citizens.

I'll give you a prime example, EZ Pass. It's great, and the states that use it originally promised it will not be used for tracking purposes. About a year after it went into use police organizations started sending tickets to people who traveled too quickly between toll locations. They were just fines and not actual license points as a speeding ticket would be, but theft by the state is still theft. Another prime example is Racketeering or the RICO act. They couldn't catch crime organizations doing anything wrong, so they made a broad spectrum set of laws that were so vague that the state can attribute it to just about any business organization they see fit to. Crime is too smart, so they simply made more things illegal. It's not about an authoritarian police state, it's making laws that fit a crime and then intentionally leaving them open to interpretation. That is something I have yet to see any government not do to some extent.

That's not to say that all government want or intend or will do evil things to their citizens. And by and large, it's not the governmental institutions that are guilty, but individuals with control over those things. That was a big part of the philosophy of the post revolution America. People are imperfect, so institutions must make up for peoples imperfections. But individuals put in charge of those institutions still err all the time. So you get police officers that kill little girls and face no repercussions for what is essentially an act of murder disguised under police action.... I'm rambling, my apologies. Suffice it to say, I see problems but I'm generally optimistic about most things.

PS. If there are mistakes in the that was written, I apologize. There is this obnoxious Clinique ad that is covering half of my type box, and I can't rid of it. Escapist, FIX YOUR ADS!

Edit: I was able to edit this without the Ad being in the way. So, it's been edited for coherence and I sometimes go comma crazy.

 

[SnowBurst]

lol not to be a douche but "hard working" all they did was look at Facebook and go round his house

 

[DugMachine]

Before reading the article I assumed this would be a guy getting arrested for liking like a little kids status or something... yeah I don't know what was going through my head.

 

[yuval152]

He's like a skinny verison of danznewz.

OT: That's what you get for having stupid friends.

 

[Epona]

For some reason, she "liked" the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office Facebook page, which provided deputies with information including her name and address.

How the fuck did a "Like" provide them with name and address?

There is a positive side to stories like this, it shows people that they need to be careful on Facebook.

As for the sex offender registry, it should not be taken seriously given how you can be put on it for the smallest of reasons. I can't even believe such a registry is legal. What a pathetic society we live in when it's worse to commit a sex crime (or piss on a tree) than to murder.

 

[somethingprofound]

Hey guys do you remember the proposed 'All-in-one' ID card that was rumoured and everyone got paranoid about?
Does anyone get the feeling they've just turned it into a social website? *conspiracy hat on*
Either way Facebook is too convenient a tool in day to day life to do without unfortunately.