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If it’s like most OSINT exercises, participants find clues to find a person but the actual contacting is done by law enforcement for this very reason. A child o
by mikece 7y ago
If it’s like most OSINT exercises, participants find clues to find a person but the actual contacting is done by law enforcement for this very reason. A child or spouse might have fled because of abuse: contacting them to say they have been found and can go home — or worse, giving location info to the abusing party — could end in tragedy. By handing off to law enforcement and letting them take it from there it allows for such situations to be handled confidentially as well as allowing the authority of the state possibly begin the process of justice.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don't see how that works when police forces literally Tweet photos of missing people though. Could easily blow their cover in their new location?
- ISL 7y agoI imagine that there is human judgement applied to the decision to make missing-person photos and information public. Police departments see the impacts of abuse more than almost anyone except those being abused -- they're going to, in general, be very sensitive to enabling an abuser.
- jacobush 7y agoYeah, that sounds reassuring but do you have any basis for this? (More than it should work like this, but I'm jaded.)
- lazyasciiart 7y agoWhy do you imagine that? My impression is that police officers are more likely than the average person to be abusive themselves, and that police departments are still fairly unsympathetic to domestic abuse victims.