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Reminds me of the /r/FindBostonBombers nonsense on reddit years back. People need to leave this sort of thing to the professionals.

• bombcar 5y ago
  > And while Citizen said it plans to get it right next time, Frame suggested in a Slack message that it won’t be the last time Citizen offers a cash reward. “We need to build this into the product and we will,” he wrote. At least reddit seems to have learned their lesson (both the company and the users).
  • avs733 5y ago
    "get it right next time" they BELIEVED they were getting it right this time.
• filmgirlcw 5y ago
  Yeah, that was one of the worst instances of mob “justice” I’ve ever seen. Innocent people were identified and targeted and investigators were forced to release information about the suspects early, which may have been directly responsible for even more bloodshed [1]. A bunch of internet obsessives playing detective from their keyboards is almost always a bad idea. As is everything that Vigilante/Citizen is doing. Having the CEO put out a cash bounty, even if it was for the right person (it wasn’t) is gross. Putting out “patrol cars” on the streets of LA when you have no authority is disgusting. Creating a rent-a-cop as a service model, especially when buoyed by bad data, is quite literally going to get people killed. [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-investigation-of-the-boston-marathon-bombing/2013/04/20/19d8c322-a8ff-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_print.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/insid...