Departments like Brimfield that engage readers and reply tend to see more activity on their police pages compared with those that don't, said Nancy Kolb, who runs the IACP Center for Social Media. The center tracks the popularity of law enforcement on Facebook and Twitter.
As technology evolves and seeps into the criminal world, police departments are struggling to keep up, says Nancy Kolb, head of the International Association of Chiefs of Police's Center for Social Media, which was launched last year to help police use social media to prevent and solve crimes.
Nancy Kolb, who oversees the International Association of Chiefs of Police Center for Social Media, said most in the law enforcement community are far behind the times when it comes to battling flash robs.
Nancy Kolb (1959-1963), Norman Pully (1954-1958), Elmo Miles (1951-1955), Susan Wojtowicz (1961-1963), George Wilkinson (1948-1950), Fred Cardwell (1939-1943)