> If you went to the police with a video and PII of a violent crime, would they still not open an investigation? The short answer... It depends. People always

> If you went to the police with a video and PII of a violent crime, would they still not open an investigation? The short answer... It depends. People always assume a lot of things when they imply that video evidence makes something an easy case to solve. Identifying people in videos isn't as easy as it seems, for example. It's also not safe to assume that the person posting a video is also the person who filmed it, nor that the location data is correct. So who's the suspect? Also, where does TikTok send the video? Do they send it to Police in a city where a video is geo tagged, or where it was uploaded, or where the user account was created? This type of stuff seems trivial when reading an article like this, but it isn't in real life. It's all stuff that may take weeks to figure out and all that time can't be spent on other cases. So yes, sometimes (maybe even often) such reports don't lead to cases. And even if they did, there's no guarantee it would lead to anything.