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The FBI will indeed crowdsource the evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560609

• wbhart 14y ago
  They don't understand the term crowdsource. They think this means that the crowd will be their source. This is explicitly spelled out in the article.
  • Evbn 14y ago
    What do you think "crowdsource" means?
  • smoyer 14y ago
    In social science experiments, it's not unusual to have undergrads or grad students classify the raw data for certain characteristics (a process generally referred to as coding). If we produce (the crowd) a large amount of data, do you really think they'll reject classification information? If someone walked into their office and said "Look at this picture I took of a guy putting something in a trashcan", I suspect that person would get pretty immediate attention. These agencies often appear to be slow because they've got political bureaucracies as well as defined processes (chain of custody in evidence is pretty important), but it's a mistake to conflate their slower speed with a lack of intelligence.
  • xur17 14y ago
    They're crowdsourcing the evidence, not crowdsourcing the processing of the evidence.